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By John Goolrick
Virginia Governor George Allen has Newt Gingrich’s burning ambition for sweeping change.
But for the moment he is like General Custer at Little Big Horn. He lacks the troops to defeat all those Indians.
And, again unlike Gingrich, it is painfully obvious that Allen cannot keep all his own Republican troops in line. While Gingrich was succeeding remarkably in retaining party unity while pushing through nine of the ten Contract with America points, Allen lost a number of influential Republicans while attempting to substantially cut government programs.
Then too dozens of conservative Democrats jointed with Gingrich and company in supporting some contract provisions, including tax cuts, a balanced budget amendment and term limits, while Democratic members of the Virginia General Assembly have remained solidly against most of Allen's programs.
Allen can take some satisfaction that none of the 11 vetoes he cast were overridden during the recent veto session.
But Democrats, sometimes with Republican help, were able to kill several amendments Allen had tried to tack onto legislation involving motor voter laws and blocking of abortion clinics, and
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