Obenshain on Conservatism
Mark Obenshain’s father was Richard Obenshain, one of the finest conservative minds and leaders ever to enter Virginia politics. As party chairman in the early 70s and briefly as the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in 1978, Obenshain oversaw the party’s strategy of appealing to economically and socially conservative people who were increasingly becoming disenchanted with the national Democratic Party.
During his brief 1978 campaign, Obenshain largely ran on economic issues, which were then as now troubling the nation. They were also appealing to the fast growing suburbs of Richmond, just as economic concerns drive many Northern Virginia voters today. However, Obenshain never betrayed his core conservative principles and belief in the rights of the individual and the superirority of the free enterprise system.
In the above video his son shows that he continues to carry that flame, and that perhaps he may someday hold the statewide office his father was never able to attain.
