(Danville, California)
What a wonderful campaign trip to North Carolina! But I am glad to be back in California a few days, before heading to West Virginia. What a race!

So what's the rush? I have said here before that being a "quitter" is not a quality we want from any serious presidential candidate from either party. John McCain didn't quit in the "Hanoi Hilton"; Barack Obama didn't quit when his dad left or his mother died; and certainly Hillary Clinton didn't quit in the lowest moments of her husband's impeachment.
We want a fighter! We liked Harry Truman for fighting back; we liked Ronald Reagan for taking a bullet, then making jokes in the operating room! We like tough; we like resilient!
So let the primaries play out. Let Hillary cross the finish line, even if it is in second place. Howard Dean ought to just stay out of it. His track record of what happens when he touches something is not very good, from his Iowa scream to the debacle this year in Florida and Michigan. If anyone ever needed the nudge to quit.....oh never mind!

"I am standing firm," she said with a laugh, "but if Barack Obama wins, I'll support him."
I suspect that is a conversation happening at many Democratic dinner tables, and talk of not supporting "the other side" is just that, talk!
Democratic party leaders would be wise to listen to people like Felicia Fitts and to quit acting as if June 3 is doomsday, instead of just the end of one political process.
I will be in Charleston, West Virginia, Monday through Wednesday, for the West Virginia primary!
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