KEENE: Obama's plan to 'crucify' political opponents - Washington Times
When Ronald Reagan took on Democratic incumbent President Jimmy Carter in 1980, I volunteered to run an independent expenditure campaign for the National Conservative Political Action Committee. NCPAC itself was run by firebrand conservative activist Terry Dolan, and while both Terry and the organization he founded may be all but forgotten today, they played a pivotal role in the politics of the day.
Independent expenditures (IE) were relatively new phenomena then; NCPAC had used them to defeat sitting liberal senators in the previous cycle, and Dolan was anxious to do what he could for Reagan. At about the same time, Roderick Hills, a former Ford administration official, set up a separate IE led by the Republican establishment who wanted, like NCPAC, to play an independent role in the fall campaign. It appeared to most observers at the outset that the Hills operation would dwarf our plans.
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