KBH Plots Her Palin Moment (w/ audio) (w/ update)

Kay Bailey Hutchison announces when she's planning on resigning. Look for a hot Senate Special Election in the first half of 2010.

This is the relevant snippet of the interview she gave to WBAP ...

UPDATE: Call her Kay Backtrack Hutchison:

The point i was trying to make in the interview was that I think there's a chance that the governor would be dropping out of this race. I mean, it's pretty unprecedented to have a governor trying to serve 15 years, and i was trying to say that. I stepped back once before [changing her mind in 2006], no one expected him to run for 15 years, and I think there's a chance that he wouldn't run because he would see how divisive it is and that he's trying to stay too long and that you know he can really help in many ways if he doesn't run, in which case I would be able to then stay in the Senate all the way to the end.

With message discipline like this, does anyone think she has a shot in heck against Perry?