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Sue Wren, the chairwoman of the Virginia Democratic Party, has the toughest job in the state these days as she surveys the wreckage of the 1997 elections.
One has to admire Wrenn’s bravado when she says, presumably with a straight face, that the party “welcomes opportunities to do a post-election analysis,” and adds, “We’re looking forward to 1998 and a year of rebuilding.”
But whatever she has in mind it may be like trying to rebuild Humpty Dumpty since she is helping preside over a state party that seems to lack any sense of philosophy or soul and is rent by bitter recriminations.
Recently former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder called on U.S. Senator Charles Robb, the state party’s highest elected official, to forget any idea of seeking re-election in 2000 since he would undoubtedly lose. Wilder said he only supported Robb for re-election in 1996 because he was “not as unfit as the man he was running against” (Oliver North) and charged that Robb, himself a former governor, had done nothing to distinguish himself in office.
Wilder, who served as lieutenant governor under Robb, then took the opportunity to blast Don Beyer who h&d served under him as lieutenant governor and was the party’s losing gubernatorial nominee this year.
All through the campaign Wilder declined to endorse Beyer, a fellow Democrat, and
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