[BlazingArizona]

The very reason I'd like to see them change the name back to "squaw", is to throw this racist argument back in their faces. Nobody took squaw as offensive until some leftists artificially created the controversy a few years ago.

Almost nobody liked the name "Squaw Peak". Even if you ignore the pejorative connotations, it's an Algonquin word that has no meaning to any of the local languages.

I was one of the many who had been hoping for "Goldwater Peak" - then Dammit Janet jumped the line and applied a name of her own preference.

[Verginius Rufus]

How about calling it Squawk Peak, in honor of the noisy activists who are always telling everyone else what to say and what to think?

[MARTIAL MONK]

There are literally dozens of topographical features in Arizona with the word squaw. Most of them are not perjorative. It was a common pioneer reference to "Indian woman". Squaw Peak was named in 1905.

Squaw Peak by any other name is still Squaw Peak. If the Republicans try to restore the name they will guarantee that even Dennis Kucinich could take the state in November. Napolitano has us skunked.

There is a way, though, to even the score, piss off the liberals, and have the whole state snickering. There are any number of prominent flood control projects in Maricopa County that could be renamed Napolitano Dike.