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require covered trucks can be passed against the will of the leadership and the powerful trucking industry, a signal is sent of what is yet to come when another redistribution of power occurs.
National GOP chairman Lee Atwater, talking recently, noted that the once powerful conservative wing of the national party now constitutes only about 25 percent of it. To hold that constituency, Atwater had George Bush promise no new taxes, leaving him free to take moderate stances on other issues.
Always one to seize the moment, Coleman has already pledged no new taxes if he’s elected governor. He realizes that conservatives don’t wield the same control over the GOP in Virginia that they did when the Reagan years began and now he can move into the center for the crucial swing vote without fear of losing either Republican or independent conservatives who aren’t likely to vote for Wilder.
On the day after his nomination, Coleman, who’ll need lots of money, went not to the old familiar Main Street Richmond types, the chief Republican money machines in the past, but to Northern Virginia lawyer-developer John “Til” Hazel who has emerged as the latter day king of GOP financial angels.
Unlike the Main Street folks whose outlook is deeply rooted in philosophical conservatism, Hazel and the new breed of fat-cats are pragmatists of the first order. They
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