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...their hostility toward what they consider to be the excesses of the liberal-left and the erosion of values in America. At the center of this alliance is the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, which specializes in campaign organization and funding. Survival's Paul Weyrich is a top strategist for the New Right, advising such groups as the well-organized N.C.P.A.C., which aggressively stalks vulnerable liberals, and the Moral Majority, founded in 1979 by TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell. The Moral Majority spent an estimated $5 million this year on its campaign, claims to have signed...
...Right drew a bead on selected targets around the country, often with deadly effect. Weyrich, for example, saw an opening in Alabama and deftly exploited it by encouraging retired Admiral Jeremiah Denton, who had spent 7½ years in North Vietnamese prison camps after his aircraft had been shot down, to run for the Republican Senate nomination. Deeply conservative but a political neophyte, Denton easily won the Republican primary...
...post-election symposium held by ABC brought together three of the targeted senators, Bayh, Church and McGovern, with two of the most powerful rightist leaders in the country, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Falwell, president of the Moral Majority. Bayh took the opportunity to charge the Moral Majority with publishing propaganda stating that Bayh endorsed homosexuality and medical experimentation on aborted fetuses. Falwell denied the accusation...
...Weyrich--who had earlier in the day told Vice President-Elect George Bush that he was not instrumental to the election of Reagan, and implied that if Bush did not take a consistently conservative stand, he could be replaced--was called to defend this apparent threat on the same ABC symposium. Weyrich said that "our movement is wedded to principles...to the extent that we do not agree with a politician, we will oppose him." He continued with a victory statement, "People who believe with these straightforward principles have been elected. I was inviting him [George Bush] to go with...
...this assault may turn out to be an error. The intended victims have begun organizing their re-election campaigns earlier than they would in a "normal" pre-election year. N.C.P.A.C.'s gambit is also causing dissension among New Right strategists, who are not as united as they seem. Weyrich's newsletter openly criticized Dolan's approach in Idaho and warned that he risked a backlash favoring Church. Weyrich's apprehension that Church may be perceived as the home-town underdog being attacked by alien bullies matches exactly Church's own strategy for survival...