Or so says Mike McKay, a Seattle lawyer and state Republican delegate who co-chairs Washington's Bush for President campaign with the congresswoman from Bellevue.
McKay recalled a conversation with Dunn about the late Massachusetts Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a Republican elder statesman who ran for re-election while also managing Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1952 presidential campaign.
Eisenhower carried Massachusetts and was elected, Lodge lost to a feisty young congressman named Jack Kennedy.
Dunn made one thing clear to McKay: She ain't going out like that.