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Typical of such Republicans is William J. “Bill” Vakos, a Fredericksburg-area lawyer and developer with strong ties to former U.S. Senator Paul S. Trible and other influential party officials. Vakos is being suggested in some quarters as a potential replacement for Huffman, should the Roanoke lawyer step down.
The party element typified by members like Vakos feel the Virginia GOP has “to look within itself to discover who we are and what we want to be.”
They think the waning fortunes of state Republicans in the 1980s has resulted from a combination of a renewed Democratic hard-headed pragmatism and the increasing tendency of the GOP rank and file to fail to recognize that the ultimate goal of any political party is to elect its candidates.
In the ’70s the Virginia Democratic Party seemed hopelessly fragmented into warring camps. Liberals, moderates and conservatives were too busy fighting for party control to concentrate their fire on the Republicans.
But that changed when Richard Davis became party chairman late in the 1970s, after three Republican governors had been elected.
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