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...individual special interest groups--groups much more difficult to pinpoint among Connecticut's dense, and traditionally moderate population. "Is this the same Terry Dolan who was so interested in the election of Jim Buckley to the U.S. Senate in my state?" Weicker asks. Despite hundred of thousands of NCPAC dollars, Buckley, a former senator from New York, lost to Democrat Christopher Dodd in last year's contest for Connecticut's other Senate seat. Buckley was not, of course, the only New Right-supported candidate to stumble. Other incumbents held off challenges from Dolan and Co. in California, Missouri, and Colorado...
Dolan finds Weicker an unusually easy mark because his "unintelligent, bizarre" votes have fallen consistently on the liberal side of issues such as prayer in school, busing and defense spending. Dolan's National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), specializes in dredging up little-known legislative records. "Our emphasis is not shock value or distortion," Dolan says--though last fall he and his allies distributed literature illustrated with murdered infants to emphasize their opposition to abortion. "The value of our program is that we tell the truth, and people don't like what they hear...
...forces of Tsongas sees as pushing the Republicans toward their downfall is the pesky conservative fringe--the odd collection of special interest groups led by outfits such as the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). In Tsongas' view, the 1980 election was "a great shudder" that brought the country back toward equilibrium after it had swung out to the left. "NCPAC and the far right senators in the Senate will de-stabilize the country in the other way, and the more the country bends to their position, the more violent will be the swing back," he says...
...control, prayer in schools and a constitutional amendment banning abortion. These things are significant if problematical, but they do not represent majority wishes. Nor does the Reagan mandate suggest approval of a national pulpit for Jerry Falwell's lethal sweet talk or of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), whose liberal-hunting leaders have been jumping up and down like Froggie the Gremlin since Nov. 4. The majority voted for Reagan because he appeared to be a reasonable man, and a reasonable presidency is what the country expects...
Some Republicans think the New Right has already over-extended itself. The mainstream of the GOP has sharply criticized NCPAC's meddling in many Senate races, and at least one high-ranking GOP insider brands the whole experience a "negative influence" on Republican campaign efforts. Joe Frumkin, a spokesman for the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, grits his teeth at Dolan's suggestion that NCPAC will oppose moderate Republicans in 1982. "We'll just have to stick it to them," Frumkin says...