Draft Kudlow’ Movement Picking Up Steam
And Kudlow said he is going to give a possible run “careful consideration.”
Newsmax first disclosed that Kudlow could have political aspirations back in March 2009, reporting that he was mulling a bid for Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd’s Senate seat from Connecticut. Kudlow announced several weeks later that he wasn’t running.
But on Jan. 20, Newsmax reported that “the New York political scene is buzzing with talk of a movement to draft Larry Kudlow” to run as a Republican challenger to Schumer.
Several media outlets cited and/or linked to the Newsmax story in the days that followed, including Politico and The Village Voice in New York.
Then on Sunday, Jan. 24, the Buffalo News reported that Michael Caputo, who served as a speechwriter for Rep. Jack Kemp, is leading an online movement to draft Kudlow for the race, and has set up a Web site at http://news.newsmax.com/?SKIvYtGj-UIr1UgDufvDvPWHzYlexLUAS&http://www.draftkudlow.com.
“No one in New York State deserves to stay home more than Chuck Schumer, and I really believe Larry Kudlow is the one person who can send him home,” he told the newspaper.
And Caputo told Newsmax: “It’s time for Chuck Schumer to be sent packing.”
Kudlow has served as chief economist for several Wall Street firms, and was an economics adviser to President Ronald Reagan. He now runs his own economics research firm, hosts CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report” and “The Call” programs, and hosts “The Larry Kudlow Show” on WABC Radio on Saturdays.
Caputo and his group aim to collect 100,000 signatures online to help convince Kudlow to enter the Senate race.
Nearly 1,000 people signed up on the first day the Web site was up, Newsmax has learned, and Kudlow’s office has been flooded with calls and e-mails, almost all of them urging him to run.
A “Draft Larry Kudlow” site is up and running on Facebook. A typical entry reads, “Finally, someone with conservative credentials and name recognition . . . Mr. Kudlow, please consider running.”
New York State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long said he signed up on the Facebook.
k site.
“I would be very pre-disposed to support Larry if he runs for Schumer’s seat,” Long told the Albany Times Union.
“He’s a pro-growth conservative. He understands how you can create jobs. He would fight for policies that would create job growth. If he was ever to go to the United States Senate, he would become the leading voice for a pro-growth economy that would cut spending, cut taxes, and create jobs.”
At one point, the prospect of unseating Schumer in blue state New York seemed a long shot. First elected in 1998, he serves as the vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus and is considered the third most powerful Democrat in the Senate. He won re-election in 2004 with more than 70 percent of the vote, and is said to have amassed a campaign war chest of more than $30 million for this year’s race.
But the stunning Jan. 19 election win by Republican Scott Brown in blue state Massachusetts has changed that thinking.
Before that election, “the idea of running Larry Kudlow for the Senate was a wish,” Caputo told Newsmax. “And thanks to Scott Brown, we now know that wishes can come true.”
Caputo told Politico’s Ben Smith: “With Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts, it’s clear that not even Sen. Chuck Schumer is safe.”
Asked for his reaction to the move to enlist him against Schumer, Kudlow told Newsmax early in the week only that he is “honored by the talk and the consideration.”
But on Thursday, he told New York radio-host Curtis Sliwa: “I’m going to give all this careful attention. And I do believe that retiring Sen. Schumer would be a noble cause, and at the present time that’s about all I can say.”
As Brown’s victory shows, anything can happen.
(Above was emailed to me and I wanted to share it with you. Great idea! You ever notice how Suchmer tries to get into every on-camera shot when Reid is speaking? The guy is so self-important that he can't stand being in the back row. I always watch him and his actions and reactions during the press conferences. Always I have mistrusted this man and I believe my intuition is correct. He reminds me of someone who would sell his grandmother to get fame. It's time, especially, for his sorry A$$ to go! - DesertCactus)
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