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While Virginia Republicans have been winning statewide elections at an increasing pace, they have until recently been doing it with former Democrats or at the self-inflicted hand of a Virginia Democratic Party which in recent times has seemed bent more on fighting philosophical liberal battles than winning elections. And with the result that Virginia is now the only state in the nation which has not elected a Democratic Senator or Governor in the past ten years.
This has gained Virginia Republicans most of the traditionally Democratic seats in Congress, at times unexpectedably with weak Republican candidates. One of these is Senator William Scott who says wisely that he is not running for reelection fhis year. This has set off a free-for-all for his seat in the first truly wide open two party U. S. Senate race in Virginia in a half century. And it is providing a wealth of promising Democratic and Republican candidates.
Among those now seeking the Republican bid is John Warner, of Upperville. Since we are his next door community newspaper and do not need to know a great deal more about him, we are going to try to express here the neighborhood thinking. For there is a great deal more to John Warner than the simplistic coat tail connection with his actress wife, Elizabeth Taylor. And there is a great deal more to her, as well, than “movie star."
A PARALLEL
A chronology of their lives which this newspaper has put together from a recent interview with the two of them puts this in an interesting human perspective:
1932—Elizabeth Taylor is bom in England. John Warner is 5 years old and living in Washington, where he was bom.
1942—John, 15, is working summers as a forest fire ranger in Montana, while Elizabeth at 10 is making her first Hollywood film, “There’s One. Bom Every Minute.”
1944—Elizabeth, now 12, films the classic “National Velvet” as an accomplished young rider and actress, while John is learning to ride on a cow pony on his father's Virginia farm. 1946— John, now 18, is in the U.S. Navy when World W'ar II ends. Elizabeth makes her first visit to Virginia and gives much of her time to war veterans in U. S. hospitals.
1947— John, now 20, is working his way through Washington and Lee University, as Elizabeth at 15 films Life With Father” and contin own academic work in film classrooms.
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