The Time Has Come Today

[Peter]

It would be great to get rid of that corrupt, smarmy Shumer. See the article below.

I hope Republicans don’t miss out on The Revolution. One problem is old line, blue blood Republican incumbents, who will want to run again. It may not be wise to bring in a Tea Party Candidate, if it splits the vote as in NY’s 23rd District, but if that had not been done we would not have gotten this far.

If the shoe fits use a new name for yourself: Tea Party Republicans, or The Republican Tea Party.

Peter

From Newmax:

‘Draft Kudlow’ Movement Picking Up Steam

A rising voice is calling for CNBC talk host and supply-side economist Larry Kudlow to challenge liberal New York Sen. Chuck Schumer in this year’s election.

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 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 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.

[Selene]

Peter:

The reality of tri-state politics is Kudlow considered running for Dodd's seat in Conn. Additionally, he has a very successful media career. He has a number of "problems" in his background that, I, as a political consultant, see as positives in today's search for certitude and commitment and honesty in the electorate.

He is a recovering alcoholic and cocaine addict. He is a Jewish person who converted to Catholicism. Neither of these potential assets may play well in New York State. Moreover, his wife has been critical to his recovery and progress and he is not sure he wants to expose her to the savages in the George Soros crowd.

Plus, you have the Clinton machine preparing for 2012. Bill the "convicted perjurer" Clinton, has just endorsed the female vegetable from upstate. Most folks are still trying to figure out how to pronounce her name Kirsten Gillibrand.

Harold Ford has moved into the state and he is articulate, well spoken and clean so he should be acceptable. We also have the other democratic criminals in the mix. Ford also is even in the color range so Harry Reid can extort a lot of money for him.

So, this is a very quick moving landscape and in order to prepare the battlefield an immense amount of field organizing would have to be done to have an effective shot at the unknown Gillibrand or the metro male Ford.

Any political organization has to build a new, light and effective field force to nail this one even into the narrow range.

We only have only 274 days left as of 12:00 PM tonight.

Adam