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Vietnam War, that was long ago and far away and Robb could justly call his decision one of conscience.
He could say, as thousands of others before him, that he did not leave his party, his party left him. His entry into the other party would help make possible a Republican recapture of the Senate in 1992 and Robb could undoubtedly get restored to the Senate Budget Committee or just about any committee he wanted.
At the same time he would demonstrate that the man who has become his arch-enemy, Gov. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, is also bound for failure in his own quest to take the conservatism he has demonstrated as a Virginia Democrat to the national stage. Wilder is still expressing an active interest in running for president next year, but the liberals who control the party apparatus — particularly the nominating process — may look askance at a man who has taken a meat-ax to the state budget, cut the salaries of teachers and state workers, pledged no new taxes, reduced the scope of social programs and supported capital punishment.
Think it over, Chuck. Many thousands of Demcrats of the liberal persuasion already regard you as a Republican. Why not show them how right they are?
(Editor’s note: John Goolrick, a former political reporter, is an aide to U.S. Rep. D. French Slaughter Jr., R-Va. Opinions expressed are his own.)
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