The Alamo May Dump Hillary

Huffington Post
Mary Mapes

When the Senator finally wrested the mike away, she talked about her long history with Hispanics down here.

Then ironically, she used an old Texas-ism that actually works against her. She said that President Bush was all hat and no cattle, a predictable battle cry against a Texas-based presidency in its death throes.

The problem is that she, too often, comes off as just the opposite — all cattle and no hat, all policy and no pizzazz, all minutiae and no magic.

And that stuff just doesn’t have a history of working down here.

Texas voters want someone who makes their hearts pound, not a policy expert. And the state has proved it time and again. We’d rather vote for a wacko than a wonk.

There is something else going on down here, something I hesitate to bring up. But the call of Texas history is haunting Hillary.

It is becoming clear that for the Clinton campaign, the Texas primary isn’t just another vote. It’s the freakin’ Alamo.

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