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Schlafly and her supporters celebrated at a balloon-festooned Over-the-Rainbow party, where the 1,400 guests pledged allegiance to the flag and listened to some 30 victory speeches. Said Conservative Digest Editor John Lofton: "I salute you fellows for doing to the ERA what Menachem Begin is doing to the P.L.O." And they applauded "special service" awards given to outstanding ERA opponents, among them the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Under Secretary of State James Buckley and Senator Jesse Helms...
...happy about Haig's resignation? John Lofton, editor of something called the Conservative Digest, was asked the question that very night on ABC's Nightline. "For about a minute and eight seconds," Lofton replied- meaning, until he heard the name of Haig's successor. Once again, to a mind like Lofton's, Ronald Reagan was proving himself insufficiently Reaganite...
...themselves onto talk shows on an off night. Richard Viguerie, whose computers contain the hottest list of right-wing fat cats, was there; so was Terry Dolan, who raises hours for commercials against candidates on his hit list. After five hours of palaver in a Washington restaurant, Lofton telephoned the New York Times about the historic" meeting. People had concluded, he said, that Reagan was salvageable, but "there was unanimous agreement on one thing: Haig must...
...longtime conservative Reagan advisers and the far right's growing feeling that the President's foreign policy is not aggressive enough have led the hard core to increase its attacks. "George Bush was the Trojan horse who opened this Administration up to non-Reaganites," charges John Lofton Jr., editor of Conservative Digest. Bush is blamed for bringing in James A. Baker, his former campaign manager, to be Reagan's chief of staff. Baker then supposedly appointed other "Bush-whackers," who have turned the Reagan Administration soft...
...John D. Lofton Jr., 33, the former editor of the Republican weekly newsletter Monday. The transition from party polemicist to political columnist has not been easy for Lofton, who seems happier attacking personalities than discussing issues. His columns, carried by some 60 papers, occasionally amount to sophomoric japes. In one piece he calls Bella Abzug a "congressthing" to ridicule the feminist cause. Lofton has written no columns about impeachment...