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When the speech was over, Robb and his staff said they had fully expected it to be received, at least in part, with boos and catcalls from the predominantly liberal conventioneers.
It didn’t happen. Indeed, Robb received a larger-thanusual round of applause for a speaker who was not supposed to have been one of the convention’s heavy hitters.
Still, labor and the more doctrinaire liberal delegates were enormously displeased, and some of them so informed the governor in no uncertain terms.
So why did Robb make the speech?
It is clear that he wanted to put his definition of the Democratic party on record before the party’s highest forum, its national convention. The address was nationally televised in on cable TV, so the entire nation - including Virginia - heard the governor spell out what he thought the Democratic party should be about.
Robb said his purpose was to "enlarge the Democratic tent” so that it could accommodate a wider spectrum of political thought. In his view the multitude of constitutent groups which have come to make up the party have become so self-focused that they have narrowed, rather than expanded, its appeal.
The view of the cooler heads in the party is that he is exactly right. They also note he was a prophet without honor—or very much notice—at the Democratic convention.
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