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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Jan Brewer thing. Like the grassy knoll, 20 years from now this moment will be crystallized.
Jan Brewer Announces Retirement
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/12/jan-brewer-retirement_n_4950389.html
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)It's possible that she isn't really retiring but considering higher office.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)She's a "polarizing figure." The Republicans went with a "risky" guy in Romney, believing the risk was in his chosen faith, but that wasn't it at all. He was simply an unlikeable elitist and faith really was not the deciding factor. IF the Republicans went with a female candidate, she'd have to be MUCH MORE of a sure thing than Jan...at least in their miinds.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)She's a weathered older woman who is of no further use to them.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)the base wants what they consider a true conservative.
Warpy
(111,271 posts)The one to watch in that regard is Susana (la Tejana) Martinez, our teabagger governor here in NM. She can recite a speech clearly and since her first contentious weeks in office, she's kept a low enough profile to be passable to most Republicans.
She'd be just the one they'd trot out to try to grab Hispanic votes, which is what got her into office here, I'm disgusted enough to say. There's been a lot of buyer's remorse.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)enid602
(8,620 posts)I heard she will run for Maricopa County Sherrif. They need new blood.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)around her finally got around to reading the Arizona Constitution and discovered that she really can't run again for governor after this term.
But that said ... Arizona has slim to no chance of electing a Democratic governor in 2014; but I she were to run again, I would vote for her over the top two republican candidates running for governor, right now. They make her seem ethical, reasoned, reasonable and sane, in comparison.
Hint ... Google: Al Melvin + Nuclear waste.