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By JOHN GOOLRICK f4 2 Rappahannock News Special Writer
Some Republicans salivating at the prospect of Lt. Governor Doug Wilder as the Democratic Party rfominee for Governor may be in for a very rude awakening.
Mr. Wilder is no Mike Dukakis, it’s going to be difficult to wrap the “L" word around his neck.
While polls show former Sen. Paul Trible beating Mr. Wilder, similar polls showed John Chichester -handily defeating him in 1985. The outcome of that campaign is well known.
I recall Doug Wilder when he first came to the State Senate in 1970. The conservative white establishment regarded him as a firebrand who didn’t fit into the club. His criticism of the lyrics of the state s$ong grated on their nerves as did *his liberal philosophy attuned to his largely black Richmond district.
But Doug Wilder has long since jettisoned that liberal baggage and fmoved to the moderate center where the majority of Virginia voters are found these days.
He has even taken hard-line conservative positions on some issues, t^ich as support for broadening the breath penalty and tough anti-crime pleasures. •I And he has retained enough of the populist instinct to appeal to those who were, or might have been.
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