It's not possible to function as a governor and do the job as it needs to be done and be _liked_ in this economic climate. This ain't our first rodeo, youngsters. That's why Steve Cowper announced in his first term that he wouldn't run for a second. Alaska needs more than political solutions, but that is all that the politicians are "hired" to do. What about the rest of us? Are we going to just whine, bitch, point fingers, attack each other? Or are we going to dig in and learn some lessons from the _Old_ (pre-pipeline) Alaska that I remember and other hard country that I grew up in? Where folks focused on shared needs and common purpose and put the arbitrary differences in perspective.