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later they again managed to win all statewide races.
Now they are faced with the spectacle of the state’s two best known Democrats openly waging war against each other and one of them the target of federal prosecutors. Memories will also be fresh of the pounding Democrats took in state legislative races last fall.
Of course, there’s a presidential race to get involved in this year, but the likely party nominee, Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas, isn’t doing well in national polls and hasn’t demonstrated any widespread following in Virginia.
And, too, when Wilder complained about a memo written by a Robb aide saying that he and some close advisors were often petty and vindictive, he failed to point out this is precisely the way the Governor is viewed by some of the most powerful Democrats in the General Assembly.
When Robb and Wilder started feuding, their primary motive was undoubtedly to wound the other politically. Instead, they have succeeded in ripping apart a party that came back from the dead in the 1980s but now appears more divided than ever. After all, who’s left to give the prerequisite unity speech in Roanoke, Widler? Robb? Or state Democratic party chairman Paul Goldman?
You gotta be kidding.
(Editor’s note: John Goolrick, a former political reporter, is now an aide to 7th District Rep. George Allen. Opinions expressed are his awn.)
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