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nomination. It was a bold m departure from traditional practice.
Others say the Craigie managers were just a little too sure of themselves, just a little too heavy-handed in dealing with wavering delegates the night before the nominations. The delegates to this convention were clearly in no mood to be told ivhat to do with their votes. And therein, I believe, lies the most significant story of the convention, and the one with the broadest implications for the future. Those of us who wrote that the convention would be controlled by the conservative wing of the party, and that the delegates would docilely do the bidding of Gov. Godwin, former state chairman Richard Obenshain, Dalton and others at the party’s conservative summit, were dead wrong.
Their Own Men And Women
It is clear that the delegates were their own men and women, and a right lusty, brawling lot they were, manifestly beholden to nobody.
They extended their independence of thought and action to the unthinkable extreme of ignoring their gubernatorial candidate’s choice of a running mate and substituting their own.
All this means a brand new ball game in thinking about the 1978 convention when the party will choose a nominee to run for the retiring Scott’s senate seat.
The known candidatesapparent are Obenshain, former Gov. Lin wood Holton and former Navy Secretary lohn Warner.
Before the Roanoke Rebellion, conventional wisdom held that the party’s conservative faction was in control and that the delegates would follow the “word” as received from the conservative high command. This being the case, Obenshain had to be considered an early favorite for the nomination.
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