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Jan Brewer Debate Video: Long Pause, Dodged Questions

by Jordan Yerman | September 3, 2010 at 09:04 am

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Jan Brewer Debate Video: Political Nightmare

It is not editorializing to call Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's performance in the gubernatorial debate a train wreck. It starts to go wrong when she has difficulty introducing herself in the televised debate against Terry Goddard, and gets worse when she tries to pass off fiction as fact, such as a fictitious series of beheadings in the Arizona desert.

Arizona Governor Debate: No Recant on Fake Facts

One might argue that the worst was yet to come: when Brewer was challenged over the false statements after the debate, she pretended as if the question wasn't even asked. What we see from this is a politician in over her head: Jan Brewer is the Governor of Arizona because Janet Napoletano went to Washington.

Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 and became a sort of hero to ultra-conservatives, but doesn't seem to have much business running a state: if her response to stiff questioning over a bill that butts up against the US Constitution is to run and hide, perhaps her supporters should re-think their support. After all, even Fox News challenged her.

Maybe the November 2 election for the Governor's office in Arizona isn't totally lost to Jan Brewer quite yet, but her campaign team is going to have to seriously rethink the run-and-hide strategy, and coach her on saying her own name when on camera. It's the little things that make a candidate marketable.