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Warner supporters in cheers while a band played “Anchors Away.”
Warner came close to winning, but no cigar. Then Obenshain was tragically killed in a plane crash weeks later and the rest is history.
Now Warner will be among those returning to Richmond for what promises to be a new, record-setting in attendance, political convention in the history of the world. It happens this weekend when between 12,000 and 14,000 Republicans, depending on various estimates, show up to choose nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.
Forget about who will be nominated for a moment and think about the sheer logistics of putting on such a humongous convention.
Delegates must be registered and seated. Arrangements must be made by candidates for the obligatory hospitality suites. Rules of order must be drafted, passed and enforced.
The responsibility of insuring a memorable convention that will be regarded as fair to all rests on the shoulders of Pat McSweeney, who will undergo his test of fire as the state party chairman.
In 1978, though the fighting was long and hard between the various factions, the convention somehow turned out remarkably well. When Obenshain was nominated, everyone rallied behind him and when Warner was named as his successor nominee, a spirit of party unity was the key in his narrow victory over Democrat Andrew P. Miller.
The coming show in Richmond will get its place in the “Guinness Book of World Records”. The question is not whether it will be remembered, but whether it will be remembered by Virginia Republicans 15 years later fondly, as the 1978 convention is, or with bitterness.
Editor's note: John Goolrick, a former political reporter, is now an aide to 1st District Rep. Herbert H. Bateman. Opinions expressed are his own, and not necessarily those of this newspaper.)
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