It's the same Jan Brewer who, during her recent re-election campaign, had to walk back her claims that law enforcement officials had found decapitated bodies in the Arizona desert. This cheesy scare tactic, intended to suggest that Mexican drug smugglers were carrying out executions in Arizona, blew up in Brewer's face when her opponent, Attorney General Terry Goddard, demanded that she produce the evidence.  It is opportunistic politicians such as Brewer who represent much of what's wrong with Arizona.  And yet, in a move that took a lot of people by surprise this week, Brewer did the right thing when she vetoed the "birther bill" that would have required President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove they were American citizens who were born in the United States before their names could have been placed on the state ballot.  House Bill 2177, which shockingly breezed through both houses of the Legislature with strong Republican support, would have put the onus on the nation's political parties to prove their candidates were American citizens who were born in the United States.  The preferred method of proof: a long-form birth certificate with all the details of the person's birth. If that wasn't available, the parties could produce a hospital birth record, a baptismal document or circumcision certificate. The Arizona secretary of state would determine whether the documents were valid and whether the candidate should be on the ballot.  As a former secretary of state, Brewer had heard enough. She said in a written statement explaining the veto: "I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for President of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth to submit their 'early baptismal or circumcision certificates' among other records to the Arizona Secretary of State. This is a bridge too far."
When a bill is too radical for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, well, that is saying something.This is the same Jan Brewer who, last year, told the Obama administration that she'd see it in court rather