Hasty rumors

If you have any remaining hopes political races are anything more than popularity contests, consider the latest exhibit: “Gabby Giffords Doesn't Know She's a Senate Front-Runner” via The Atlantic Wire.

After U.S. Rep. Giffords was shot in the head Jan. 8, 2011, in an assassination attempt that killed six and injured a dozen others, even those of us who never heard of her learned she is respected and loved by many. Over the next days and weeks, small bits of information came out about what may prove to be a dramatic recovery.

Now, as the story above informs us, some are suggesting the congresswoman make a run for the Senate. Of course, it’s merely speculation at this point because Gabby, as she’s called by many, is just now beginning to formulate entire sentences. She only recently was told she was shot and not in an accident, as she had been assuming. She still has not yet been told of the deaths of friends at the shooting.

I hope Giffords does complete a full recovery. She might even make a wonderful senator, but there’s nothing now to lead us to either assumption.

However, her name still evokes passion, so people are floating the idea before things cool down.

And someday, they just might be able to tell her what they’re doing.