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candidates, absent Del. Guest, are woefully short of credible recent experience in confronting the affairs of state government. Sen. Trible has none - unless you count a brief stint as Commonwealth Attorney for one of the state’s least populous counties.
Mr. Coleman has been out of government since the beginning of this decade. Not, it should be noted, for lack of trying.
Rep. Parris, with only short sojourns in the General Assembly, as Secretary of the Commonwealth, and as Virginia’s lobbyist in Washington, is considerably more familiar with the government of the District of Columbia than he is with that of his own state.
The media attention generated by the primary contest should have provided Coleman, Trible and Parris with an opportunity to test and fine-tune critical issues. At this stage of the campaign, the themes they expect to employ to convince Virginia’s voters to repudiate the Democratic-Dominated Robb/Baliles years in the executive mansion should be sharply honed.
But here it is April, and the' GOP’s candidates are confounding their friends and comforting their enemies.
No one who has observed J. Marshall Coleman over the years is really surprised that the former Attorney General has embraced the attack tactic. Coleman has characterized former Senator Trible as a “quitter” for not running for re-election to the U. S. Senate and has hounded
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