Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer may run for a third term. Her Top Ten political moments.

You may not be rid of me yet! While political pundits, pollsters, and prognosticators in the Grand Canyon State have been filling newspaper columns, TV airtime, and blog posts with projections about who the D's and R's will run for governor in 2014, the current occupant of that seat, finger-wavin', scorpion-munchin' Jan Brewer, recently said, Hold on there, boys and girls, I just may run for a third term. What she actually said was, "I haven't ruled it out, and I've been encouraged by people ... that it's probably something that I ought to pursue."

If you remember Arizona history from 8th grade, you probably know there's this little matter of the state Constitution, which prohibits elected officials from holding office for more than two consecutive terms, and 2014 marks the end of Gov. Brewer's second term. As secretary of state in 2009, she fell into the executive's office when then-Governor Janet Napolitano was tapped by President Obama to run Homeland Security. Arizona has no lieutenant governor, so it's our secretary of state who assumes the position, which has become something of a recent tradition in Arizona politics'in 1988, when bigoted used-car salesman turned bigoted Governor Evan Mecham was impeached, and again in 1997, when corrupt developer turned corrupt Governor Fife Symington was convicted of bank fraud.

Supporters of Jan Brewer's possible bid for another campaign in 2014 argue that her first term doesn't really count, since she was not elected by the people and she did not serve a full four years. Here's the section of the Arizona Constitution that lawyers, judges, politicians, lobbyists, and donors will be slicing and dicing until Gov. Brewer makes up her alleged mind:

No member of the executive department shall hold that office for more than two consecutive terms. This limitation on the number of terms of consecutive service shall apply to terms of office beginning on or after January 1, 1993. No member of the executive department after serving the maximum number of terms, which shall include any part of a term served, may serve in the same office until out of office for no less than one full term. Article 5, Section 1

I'm no lawyer, but "any part of a term served" seems to nail it down: any part, whether it's two days or two years, counts toward the two-term limit. But, hey, Brewer has attempted to rewrite or reject other Arizona statutes, such as the medical marijuana bill passed by voters, and she's spent most of her second term in court defending legal challenges, especially to the "papers please" law, so there's no reason to expect she won't take to the courts again in an effort to bend the laws her way.    

So let's say Jan does decide to run. I leave you over the jump with the "Top Ten Jan Brewer Moments," which I trust her campaign team will exploit to full advantage. Someone will.