Heard Brewer on the radio this morning. Asked why she was continuing the fight even though it's unpopular, she responded (this is from memory but is pretty close to the actual quote), "Well, we could believe the polls, or we could believe that voters don't understand what has happened and what the Constitution says."
So not only is she stupid, she's publicly stating that the voters are stupider than her.
I would very much like for her to keep talking, and for her to keep up this fight.
And while I absolutely believe we're approaching the point where a recall is entirely justifiable, I can't see supporting one. Because absolutely nobody sane ever runs as a Republican candidate for governor in Arizona.
The last time we had a moderate Republican campaigning for the office? Jane Hull, 1998. And she was running because she was the incumbent, having been appointed when Symington was removed.
The last time we had a moderate Republican campaigning for the office, before Hull? I don't know. If it was in my lifetime, it would have been a month after I was born; apparently somebody named Leo Corbet ran in '82 and lost to Babbitt.
Anyhow. '86?
Mecham; became a historical footnote for his opposition to the MLK holiday. Impeached; convicted of misuse of government funds and obstruction of justice.
'90 and '94?
Symington; indicted for extortion, false financial statements, and bank fraud; convicted for bank fraud but pardoned by Clinton before appeals were done.
'98? Hull; already covered. The only moderate in this list, and she didn't originally run for Governor.
'02 and '06? Salmon and Munsil, respectively. How bad were they? Well, let's put it this way: solid-red Arizona twice elected a Democrat who was popularly believed to be a closet lesbian. Salmon and Munsil could not get elected in the state that elected Mecham, Symington, and, later, Brewer. They are fringe bloody loonies; Tea Partiers before they were called that.
(In fairness, Salmon came pretty close; Napolitano beat him by about a percent. In a race where an independent -- my candidate of choice that year, Richard Mahoney -- got about 7%, and a Libertarian got around 1.5%. Munsil, by contrast, got fucking trounced; granted, that was the Democratic sweep of '06 and Napolitano was the incumbent, but still and all, she beat him by almost 30 points.)
So no, I can't really see supporting a recall of Brewer. Because the way this state works, her opponent would be someone equally crazy and less stupid.