Absent a scandal? Butch IS a scandal!!
Well, let me see . . . Things like the impeachment and removal of one Governor, Burton Barr buying land in the path of the freeways and sticking it to the state, indictment and conviction of another Governor, alt fuels fiasco, raiding the MLK fund, corruption in the Corporation Commission, the rise and fall of the Phoenix Forty, even Azscam. Yeah, I know some can be argued to death, but they have been deeply etched in the public perception.
Something is very wrong when voters will take a bull dyke over Matt Salmon and we need to fix it now. Remember it was the Rs that made Arizona one of the highest taxed states in the Union even though Fife unwound that a bit. The old Arizona is gone, dead, kapoot, in Boot Hill. We have to work with the new dynamics.
If we can't convince the legions of the underclass that they are better off with a job than a handout, then we deserve to lose. In 25 years the average income in Arizona will be just 60% of the national average. That's 3/5s as in you know what. Some major adjustment is necessary.
Yesterday, after my previous post, I met an old cowboy type spitting venom at Rs in general and Bush in particular. There really is disconnect when he will choose a carpet muncher over the party of Goldwater.