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group, and one of Robb’s mentors — Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia — cut and ran when it came time for the crucial war powers vote and sided with the vast majority of Democrats who opposed it. That left Robb in a very distinct minority in his own party.
And, of course, he is apt to remain in that very distinct minority in times to come because there is no indication that national Democrats are going to become more moderate on fiscal and defense issues. As a group they continue to believe in bigger and bigger government, higher taxes to finance more spending and deep cuts in national defense.
The national Republican Party has problems and divisions of its own, but in point of fact Robb’s philosophy is infinitely closer to the GOP philosophy than that of his own national party.
A Richmond newspaper that took Sasser and Democrats to task for removing Robb also wondered aloud why the Senator doesn’t just go ahead and turn Republican, as Gov. Buddy Roemer of Louisiana recently did. His efforts to turn the Democratic Party to the right are obviously doomed to failure and his conservatism can only alienate many of his liberal colleagues in the Congress.
As a Republican, Robb would be in step with his own party and positioned well to become a major player in that party. Though his father-inlaw was Lyndon B. Johnson, the architect of the “Great Society,” and
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