The problem isn’t that Coleman didn’t back Col. North, it is that he ran 3rd party and took the key votes that would’ve gone to North. Robb was toast otherwise. Frankly, I’m glad Coleman never won the Governorship given his behavior. Having Wilder as Governor & Robb in the Senate for that period allowed their ugly feud to be as public as possible, weakening Robb. There’s also a good chance that Coleman as Governor would never have been succeeded by George Allen.
Goode tried to keep the VA Democrats from becoming an all moonbat party and also forced them to agree to power-sharing when they reached parity in the State Senate. Even as a Democrat, by GOP standards, he was a good legislator. In a way, it’s too bad he never got the chance to be VA Governor.
As I stated, I do not expect Goode to embrace the nutty neo-isolationist Ron Paul stuff and that anything related to Defense to be a responsible Conservative stance. His website position isn’t explicit beyond this:
“National Defense: We need a strong national defense. However, reckless federal spending which has given us a deficit in excess of one trillion dollars necessitates cutting defense spending. We must now come home from Afghanistan and reduce our expenditures around the globe.”
I was there! it wasn’t just Coleman as he ran too and so did Robb and Wilder. You have to know that Nancy Reagan also went after North when he ran for senate. It hurt. It was a close election. Warner wanted Coleman. Many did.
The Virginia republican establishment was not behind North. I went to the debate at Hampden Sydney..the kids loved Ollie but the big time old names such as John Warner didnt.
Virginia had a good governor..George Allen.
Hate to be the barer of bad news to you but Goode will never be president.