Tim_Skubick's Blog

“I’m not a quitter,” she put a point on her comments in ‘07. However she is not saying that anymore.

She has successfully ingratiated herself to the Obama folks even though she started out as a staunch Hillary Clinton backer. And the Obama folks like her. She played Sarah Palin to prepare V.P. candidate Joe Biden for his debate with his GOP counterpart.

Then she was off to Florida to appear on a panel with Obama. Next he personally invited her to the last debate where she waxed on his behalf in the spin room afterwards. That stuff adds up and as one informed source puts it, “She’s going to be offered something. Absolutely.”

Given a chance the other day to repeat her earlier observations about not wanting to go to Washington, the governor turned on the fog machine…full blast.

“Will you promise you will not take an offer to go to Washington?”
“I want to serve with a president in the White House who knows Michigan’s issue,” she began her dash to the SUV.

She was asked to make the promise again. She gave the same answer again and then jumped in the car and shut the door.
First Gentleman Dan Mulhern has a cryptic four-word response, “I don’t think so.” Notice he did not say no way, no how.

There’s one guy in town who is hoping Mulhern is wrong: Lt. Governor John Cherry will run for governor but he’d rather be governor when he does. If she leaves, he gets an audition and a leg up on all the other D’s who want the job, too.

But one guy who could toss a monkey wrench into the works is former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer. He is very close to Obama and he could ask his pal to deny Granholm a post just to prevent Cherry from getting hers.

Only one thing wrong with the theory Archer says, “I don’t play those kind of games.’ In fact he adds, “I would promote her.” Now the question is, will the President elect do the same thing?