Not yet.

Well, when?

Who knows? Maybe never.

If she didn’t have enough money to fight the boys with big bucks on television and they were about to hit the tube, so be it.

She had enough following to make Texans sit up and take notice almost two months ago.

So says Bob Moffitt, a Salisbury native and old friend of Elizabeth Dole’s when she was Liddy Hanford.

Moffitt was one of those singing Moffitt twins who entertained students at Boyden High School when the former — oh, that word hurts — presidential candidate was in the class behind him.

And he and his wife, Rita, just happened to be in Texas at a business seminar on Sept. 3.

Of course, he’s a Liddy supporter, and his ears perked up when he heard her name. And it all came back when she pulled out, prompting him to write a brief note to home folks recalling what he’d heard.

At the beginning of September, he wrote, “the talk of the whole state was that Liddy Dole was going to drop out of the presidential race to become Bush’s running mate.

“The news really disappointed us, but apparently there are forces working that can make it all happen as Texans like it. Texans are really proud of their oil and beef barbecue. I prefer textiles and greasy pork myself vis-a-vis Texans and oily beef.”

And so, apparently, do a lot of other people.

Barely a week ago, David Von Drehle, a Washington Post staff writer traveling with Dole in Mount Vernon, Iowa, wrote about her drawing power.

“The crowd is so large inside the Cornell College student center,” he wrote, “that people are stuck outside, peering through the windows for a glimpse of Republican presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole.

“The room where she is scheduled to speak holds about 75 people comfortably. Twice that many are jammed inside. When the crowd continues to gather, the event is hastily moved to a larger room, which quickly fills to capacity — perhaps 300 people in all.”

And then he adds:

“It’s like this everywhere she goes. At previous stops on this two-day campaign swing, Dole filled a banquet hall, a high school gym, a lecture hall and a hospital auditorium. Her campaign doesn’t have much money, and it doesn’t have a strong organization. It has one strength: Elizabeth Dole, one of the three most-admired women on the planet, according to the Gallup poll.”

And she probably filled another auditorium again yesterday.

A call to her office late Monday afternoon revealed that nobody’s faxing her campaign scheduleto news media now because she has no campaign schedule at this moment.

But she was making a speech, and Stewart McLaurin, her chief of staff, was keeping the home fires burning in her campaign office in the Washington suburbs and speaking for her.

“Let’s see,” he muses, when he’s asked what she did during the first weekend she didn’t have to hurry from one speech to the next, one fund-raiser to another.

He has to think a minute.

Does he remember?

“Well, she worked late on Friday,” he says, “and she’s out of the office today. I do know she did keep a commitment today to speak in Utah, but it wasn’t a campaign related-speech. She went there Sunday afternoon. And staff members worked on Sunday, so I feel sure she did, too.”

And he feels just as sure she went to church.

No matter what, that’s always a priority.

“I’ve been to church with her from Boston to Honolulu and from Anchorage to Miami. Where? Usually it’s one close to the hotel.”

And if it’s a special church day of some sort, she always tries to fit that into the schedule.

“We went to an Ash Wednesday service in Orlando.”

But she’s pretty focused on wrapping up some loose ends now.

“She worked late every night last week, wrapping things up. I think she took dinner at her desk every night — Chinese carry-out or some sort of good old American junk food.”

He laughs and backs up.

“We try to be as nutritious as we can be,”he says, but sometimes it’s not always easy to do, so ...

And how many of the 30 regulars and up to 20 volunteers who were there are still working at campaign headquarters?

“I don’t know,” he says. “Some are beginning to go on interviews and look for jobs, and people are calling to tell someone there may be a job ... But I’m still busy doing what’s today and not what’s tomorrow yet. We’re having a gathering with all the staff and volunteers this afternoon, and we’ll have a photographer and do some pictures. We’ll probably close down in the next couple of weeks.”

But for right now, everyone’s busy.

Dole’s announcement that she was dropping out, he says, “has created a whole new wave of correspondence. People have sent so many flowers and cards and letters, he says, “and we have to respond to that.”

And as far as Dole herself is concerned?

“I’m sure she’ll have a lot to consider and a wealth of opportunity,” McLaurin says. “She’ll want to do something that continues to give back and serve and build a better country, but I don’t know what specific form that will take as yet.”