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learly Huffman wanted no repetition of 1981. There was a real concern that if Coleman pulled out and released his delegates there would be a mid-ballot stampede to either Viguerie or Giesen.
The Colemans retreated, but were back as soon as the count ended. Again Huffman attempted to block their way, saying the count had not been announced. This time, however, Mrs. Coleman physically brushed him aside on the left while Coleman made an end run around his right. Together they marched to the podium where Coleman seized the microphone and bowed out while Huffman paced the platform in obvious frustration.
A few minutes later when the candidates, successful and unsuccessful, were asked to come to the platform for the usual display of post-convention unity, the Colemans did not appear. Nor did they appear at a “unity breakfast” the next morning, an event which was also skipped by Giesen and a number of allies of the mountain-valley Republicans.
Thus the Godwin faction and the independent conservatives carried the day, but at an undetermined cost in terms of intraparty harmony.
And the old-line GOP moderates who built the party and held it together saw the day move closer — if it’s not already here — when the ex-Democrat and irw , dependent conservative tail wffl > be permanently wagging the Vir- * ginia Republican deg.
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