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...Conservative Caucus. NCPAC'S Dolan took what comfort he could in having made "a number of liberals very unhappy." But, he complained, "the 'stay the course' theme was essentially defensive. It did not point out what was wrong with the other side." During the campaign, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress had objected, "The liberals have by and large framed the issues...
Says New Right Leader Paul Weyrich: "Now we've got what we helped to prevent...
...past, Reagan is likely to give public support to the New Right causes, which he does indeed care deeply about. But the White House political machinery is not expected to crank up a full-fledged campaign for social and moral legislation. Says a disillusioned Paul Weyrich, chief strategist for the New Right: "Like Pontius Pilate, they just want to wash their hands of the whole thing...
...details of his own programs. The performance raised new questions about Reagan's control of the presidency, which were being asked even by some of the far rightists who helped elect him. At a meeting of conservatives organized by New Right Leaders Richard Viguerie and Paul Weyrich, Reagan last week was criticized for his neglect of social issues like abortion and his fecklessness on foreign policy...
...busing, the Equal Rights Amendment, sex education in public schools, the ban on public school prayers, tough gun laws and foreign aid to leftist regimes. The main matchmaker of this coalition, New Right Strategist Paul Weyrich, explains in his precise, self-assured manner that abortion became a potent right-wing issue because liberals forsook the "opportunity"-which assumes they even would have wanted it. Says Weyrich: "Ted Kennedy, who is supposed to be a Catholic, could have got out in front on this, and he would have had people in his hip pocket. Now some of the hard-core Right...