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There were, or course, no direct nee-ora at tne podium between the prospective candidates. Besides Durrette, only one was able, albeit indirectly, to peddle his gubernatorial wares. That was Coleman whose applause, compared to Dinette's, can best be described as polite.
Butler served as the convention's permanent chairman, while both Parris and Bateman labored under special handicaps. Although they confess availability for the nomination, they are both running for reelection to Congress this year. They must first win those elections in 1984 in order to have a ghost of a chance of winnhig the nomination for governor in 1966. Yet, they can hardly tell their constituents that if re-elected they will only serve one year of their terms. Thus, at the convention they were involved in the excruciating exercise of working the crowds in search of support for the governorship, an office for which they were diligently not running.
And so Durrette, the favorite of the GOPs conservative wing and its more mihtantly conservative youth groups, did indeed appear to be the favorite of the convention.
But is be the favorite of the party generally? While it may work out that way, the view is by no means unanimous at this point.
Just as state Democratic conventions are more liberal than their party at-large, Republican conventions have, in recent years, been more conservative. Yet the Hampton convention did a few things which departed from the ways of unyielding conservatism.
Contrary to the expectation of some, there was no challenge from the right to the state chairmanship of Donald Huffinan of Roanoke.
National Committeeman William Stanhagen of Manassas, a moderate conservative, easily turned back a challenge from a more conservative candidate for the post, Sterling Rives of Petersburg.
Similarly, Flo Traywkk of Lynchburg defeated two more conservative candidates for National Committeewoman. They were Jean Khng of Fairfax and Ann Williams of Newport News. Ms. Traywick’s victory was enormously assisted by a controversial ruling by Butler that, when Ms. Khng withdrew after trailing on the second ballot, she wwld not be permitted to address the convention for the purpose of asking her supporters to switch to Williams.
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