They will give this speech with enthusiasm right up until a new one comes along. Then hope flares up. This also is our relationship with politics. We sneer cynically at politicians in general.
Hope springs eternal.
Tuesday, the people of Florida begin a new relationship with a new governor. There is no way to know at the outset whether he will be a success or a flop. But no governor in a generation has had as free a hand to put his stamp on this state. Bob Graham, a Democrat elected governor in 1978, started out as a flop. Bob Martinez, a Republican elected in 1986, started out with an uneasy truce with the Democrats who ran the Legislature.