This should be yet another wake-up call for Gibson.

Madrid was a big wake-up call to us, yet we did relatively little. It really seems to me a matter of time before it happens in our country -- in part because it's so easy to do.

I'm still waiting to wake up, it hasn't sunk in yet.

Absolutely, (he's the front-runner). He's got name recognition. He's run campaigns in every county in the state. And he's got money.

Jim Gibbons has always been an outsider. The tax restraint initiative went to initiative because the Legislature wouldn't consider it. I think the Republicans, even though they don't like him, are going to have to come to the realization that he is the guy.

Football was his break, but it can't be everybody's break. That's why the Millennium Scholarship will be his legacy. That scholarship will be the thing that the Guinn administration is best remembered.