Governor, if I may, I’d like to suggest how you move your political career and your life. You need to find a way to channel your skills and energy into somethin g hat is worthwhile. Looking to 2012 isn’t building your brand, it is trying desperately to hold on to what was lost.
For the next few years, sit in IEP meetings with you son’s teachers. Visit the classrooms of special needs children throughout this country. Sit down with the parents, teachers and administrators that work with these children everyday. Plan for how your son will be fed and clothed and sheltered if you and your husband died suddenly. Plan where and how your son will live semi-independently when he is 18 years old.
Take that knowledge and lash it to your formidable personal presence and make a change for these kids and adults. Find the solutions to real problems for real people. And when you stand up again on a stage with a half dozen other candidates vying for your party’s candidacy, you can call yourself an education expert. You can point to the organizations that you have helped, the legislation that you pushed through and the families that you have supported.
It is a recipe for success.