Saturday, June 7, 2008

What if Hillary had been at the Alamo?

AUSTIN, Texas -- Has it occurred to anybody but me that if Hillary Clinton had been at the Alamo, either Texas would have won the battle, or we'd still be fighting a war with Mexico?
Nobody can hang in there quite as long and hard as Hillary Clinton. From watching her during her run against Barack Obama, I'm a little surprised that when Bill left the White House, Hillary didn't have the bedroom furniture pushed under the doorknob so they couldn't drag her out of the building.
Or, put nicely, this woman exemplifies Texas fight about as well as anyone out there.
So I'm thinking that if Hillary had been at the Alamo, she would have kicked Santa Anna's butt, and today the Daughters of the Republic of Texas would be selling coonskin pantsuits instead of Davy Crockett's coonskin caps out of the gift shop. The tail on the back of the suit would be optional.
This is a woman who does not accept defeat easily, if at all. I can hear her concession speech to the American people when she finally decides to give it up to Obama.
"I sure hope you're happy."
See, for months, the word on the Hillary presidential campaign has been that there's not a fat girl's chance on "America's Next Top Model" that she could beat Obama for the presidential nomination. The delegate count just wasn't there. And it wasn't going to be there, ever. Every night on the TV news there would be some pundit, showing the figures on these charts I've seen about 100,000 times and saying there just ain't no way Hillary Clinton could catch up. It was more likely George W. Bush would take up Chaucer. Or Al Gore would come on national TV and tell the polar bears to practice their long-distance doggie-paddling.
Still, Hillary refused to face reality. Too bad we didn't have her around here in Texas back in 1836. If the Mexican troops had had to deal with her, they would have marched back to Mexico and started up the margarita machine.
Imagine Clinton at the Battle of the Alamo if it were today. Imagine the Alamo ringed by thousands of Clinton supporters having just rushed over there from their "Sex and the City" parties to urge Hillary to hang on. Do you think the Mexicans would have stood a chance against something like that? Not without earplugs.
Word is that any day now, Clinton will suspend her campaign and announce her support for Obama. Notice how I used the word suspend here, and not concede. Sure, she'd probably suspend the campaign because that means she can keep raising money to pay off her $20 million campaign debt. Suspend is a little different than concede. Concede means "I give up." Suspend could mean "I'm going to take some time off. Then, just maybe, later on I'll get back up and bite you on the butt."
Suspend was not what Santa Anna would have wanted to hear. And if Hillary had been at the Alamo, the Mexicans would be building the wall along the Rio Grande just to keep Hillary from messing with them.

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