No.
...and taking a shot to the head still does NOT entitle someone to a Senate seat. And I happen to like her as a person.
Liberals, running someone they do not agree with most of the time, to get the sympathy vote, is just a desperate attempt to maintain their majority in the Senate!
I doubt she will be well in time. A shot to the head will affect her forever.
It’s profoundly sick what the left will do, in order to achieve their ultimate goal of leftist power, forever!
She barely beat Jesse Kelley in her race for Congress. She had to run on her record and won only because Tucson is liberal and she can count on student support from the University of Arizona. Some Republican from Phoenix with name recongnition should win easily.
There is no way to know what level of cognition Gifford's will attain. In any case, she is not likely to be "the same" as she was... in an entire range of possibilities. Give her a chance to heal, before you start talking about how she will be "used". Heartless morons...Sheesh.
Drudge says “Big Sis” is thinking about running.
No.
She am dain bramaged.
Ignoring the fact the she only ‘won’ her seat through re re recounts that were typically dem maneuvers.
And now Janet Incompetano is considering running for Kyl’s vacating senate seat.
They really do live in an alternate universe. But their universe is so filled with corruption anything is possible.
She will run and she will have a very good chance at winning as it would be difficult for an opponent to run a negative campaign against her.
And if Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond could serve in the Senate, there is no reason why she would be incapable of serving.
What an idiotic article! The woman was shot through her eye, and I don’t think it’s even been reported as to whether she can see, or whatever else she can or cannot do at this time.
It sounds like she has quite a road to recovery ahead of her. Campaigning is grueling, and one would think she’d need a little longer to recover than to run right out and campaign for 2012.
But whoever wins that election, let’s hope the AZ voters put someone in that position to make up for the horrific mistake they made in re-electing Juan McCain. I can’t believe they fell for his “no amnesty” pledge once again!
She might have if she hadn’t been shot, but I seriously doubt she’ll run for Kyl’s seat now. No one knows how well her recovery will progress. Anyone interested in the seat needs to start an exploratory committee now, and Giffords isn’t in any condition to do that. At this point even running for reelection to her current seat will be an extreme challenge.
I don't think the news media has made this point. They have put forward the image that she will be perfectly normal in time. Unfortunately, that's not the case with gunshot wounds through-and-through the brain.
Tim Johnson ran for re-election while recovering from a brain aneurysm, and was returned in no small part due to the sympathy vote. Don’t be surprised if Giffords tries to milk the electorate along those same lines.
Unless that bullet in the head rid her of her liberal proclivities, I say Hell no.
How vile and disgusting, but not surprising
Look, if she does, no opponent ought to feel obligated to hold back on her—this “hands off” crap will give us another senator like Max Cleland.
Being a victim doesn’t entitle you to a free Senate seat.
To be a senator, she will have to win the whole state, not just her gerrymandered district.
The sleazy Dems would send her to Washington with Grima Wormtongue as her Chief Advisor.