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he had when he first arrived in the Senate, and as the top ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee and a pal of Sen. Nunn’s wields clout in protecting defense installations in Virginia and the tremendous boost they give to the economy.
Though an independent commission came up with the hit list of military bases to be closed, Sen. Warner let it be known that he felt Fort Monroe, thought by man to be an outmoded base that had long ago outlived its usefulness, was still vital to the national defense,
If Gov. Baliles decides to challenge Sen. Warner - and I’d put those odds at 50-50 - he can call on Sen. Charles S. Robb for help, cite his pragmatic efforts as Governor to solve crucial transportation and social problems, and hope the electorate has become disenchanted with President George Bush and Republicans in general.
With name recognition equal to Sen. Warner’s, he would have a unified party behind him with a strong lust to pick up the other U.S. Senate seat in the w'ake of Robb’s 1988 demolition of the stranglehold held by the GOP on both Senate seats for a decade.
Sen. Warner could suffer a little from his alienation of growing numbers of conservatives who consider him entirely too moderate and entirely too willing to play ball w7ith his Democratic colleagues. He has proven to be anything but the ideologue the state would have gotten had Dick Obenshain lived and been
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