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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Some people who were initially critical of the appointment of Paul Goldman as chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party may be slowly changing their minds.
It’s not that establishment type Democrats are ever going to become overly chummy with a vegetarian, health-food addict, Yankee lawyer who would never dream of eating barbecue from Smithfield, Virginia or anywhere else or puffing a tobacco product grown in Southside and manufactured in Richmond.
Yet even Democrats from the party’s conservative wing who recall Goldman’s past allegiance to Henry Howell and other party liberals are grudgingly admitting that he isn’t doing all that bad a job.
That’s a big change from the time a few months ago when he was announced as Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s hand-picked choice to lead the party.
There was coi. ,em expressed then that with Goldman at the helm, public perception of the Virginia party might veer back to tht liberal image it picked up and kept through most of the 1970’s until Dick Davis and Chuck Robb came to its rescue.
Where Goldman fits these days on the philosophical scale isn’t readily apparently. But even if he is still at heart a liberal, he is carrying out his duties as chairman in a solidly pragmatic manner that attempts to keep open lines of communication with all elements.
Though he and the party drew heat from some editorial writers for not putting up a challenger to U.S. Senator John Warner, political realists knew once outgoing Gov. Gerald L. Baliles decided not to run the Democrats had no viable challenger
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