Hillary Clinton not quite down yet.

I am not so sure Hillary Clinton will be telling us goodbye all that soon.

Newsweek’s Jonathon Alter says she should step down down, and avoid the embarrassment of defeat in the March 4th primaries in Texas, Vermont, Rhode Island and Ohio.

Well, fine, Mr. Alter, you national boys have a heap of smarts. Now, I don’t carry any water for either of the two remaining Democratic Party candidates. My boy, John Edwards, doesn’t have a dog in this fight (although his name still is on the Texas ballot).

My mother’s side of the family comes from Vermont. I was there awhile back and got to drive logging roads and look at autumn colors. Nice place, but I don’t know anything about its politics.

Don’t know how it is in Ohio. Nice place, I understand. It gave us James Thurber. Used to play cards with a helluva player name of Lillile who lived up there. I rode through the state in the back seat of a car when I was kid. I remember a lot of green. I understand there’s some football played up there too.

Never been to Rhode Island, not even through it. There’s a good chance I flew over it once or twice, but that’s about it.

However, I do know Texas.

A “do or die” situation inspires the troops. They shoulder their underdog burden and wear it with pride as they knuckle down.

Hillary and her camp are in “Alamo Mode”. That’s not a la mode, with the ice cream on top of the pie, but hunker-down-and-get-ready-to-fight-to-the-end-in-one-last-stand mode. Often, that kind of determination can overcome inspiration.

Face it, there are many older Dems here who don’t want to seem racist, but just don’t feel right voting for Obama. I am not making this up. They say they are concerned about experience, electability in the South and a sense that Hillary has “earned” her turn. These are the folks you can count on to vote. Many of these also are the folks who see John McCain as a nice man who would not make a bad president.

Of course, there’s always that cloud of racial read more

Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, James Thurber, John Edwards, John McCain, Ohio, primary, Republican Party, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont