Just weeks after suggesting Dodd should be "impeached" on CNBC, Kudlow confirms interest in Dodd's Senate seat
SUMMARY: Politico reported that Larry Kudlow "confirmed his interest" in running against Sen. Chris Dodd in 2010 and quoted Kudlow saying: "I'm thinking about it, that's all I can say ... it's the kind of thing where I'm talking to friends, talking to strategists, talking to my wife, and praying on it." Less than three weeks earlier, however, Kudlow suggested in his capacity as a CNBC host that Dodd should be "impeached," saying that Dodd "has yet to divulge fully his sweetheart mortgage deals with the former Countrywide. He's re-fi'ed his mortgages, but we don't know those documents, either. Instead of being impeached, he's still around."
In a March 2 blog entry, Politico reporter Josh Kraushaar reported that CNBC host and syndicated columnist Larry Kudlow "confirmed his interest" in running against Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) in 2010 and quoted Kudlow saying: "I'm thinking about it, that's all I can say ... it's the kind of thing where I'm talking to friends, talking to strategists, talking to my wife, and praying on it." Kraushaar further reported that Kudlow confirmed that National Republican Senate Committee chairman John Cornyn (TX) "met with him over dinner last week to discuss the idea." Less than three weeks earlier, however, Kudlow suggested in his capacity as a CNBC host that Dodd should be "impeached," saying on the February 13 edition of CNBC's Kudlow & Company that Dodd "has yet to divulge fully his sweetheart mortgage deals with the former Countrywide. He's re-fi'ed his mortgages, but we don't know those documents, either. Instead of being impeached, he's still around."
During a February 2 press conference, Dodd stated that he and his wife "acted properly in our mortgage refinancing negotiations. We did not seek or expect any special rates or terms on our loans and we never received any." In a February 2 article on the press conference, Reuters noted that Dodd "released a report from an independent firm, Cross Check Compliance, which analyzed market data on mortgage rates and fees from 2003 and concluded that the senator's loans were in line with the overall market at that time."
Kraushaar wrote on March 2:
The political blogosphere has been abuzz with rumors that CNBC anchor and syndicated columnist Larry Kudlow is considering running for the Senate against Chris Dodd (D-Conn.)
Kudlow confirmed his interest in an interview with POLITICO this afternoon and said he was talking to strategists to assess the feasibility of a statewide run. He said NRSC chairman John Cornyn met with him over dinner last week to discuss the idea, and the two have since had a follow-up phone conversation.
"He came up to me, and put it right on the table. He seems to think it would be a good race, and a national race," Kudlow said.
Kudlow, though, said he enjoys his job as a CNBC anchor and commentator -- and it would be tough to leave it for the world of politics.
"I'm thinking about it, that's all I can say ... it's the kind of thing where I'm talking to friends, talking to strategists, talking to my wife, and praying on it," Kudlow said. "It's all come on very fast, and I don't have any definite thoughts at all other than the fact that I am thinking about it."
From the February 13 edition of CNBC's Kudlow & Company:
KUDLOW: Now, [on-air editor] Charlie Gasparino joins us now with the latest on Bailout Nation and all the rest of it. Now, we got a great quote from Sen. Chris Dodd, who has yet to divulge fully his sweetheart mortgage deals with the former Countrywide. He's re-fi'ed his mortgages, but we don't know those documents, either. Instead of being impeached, he's still around. Listen to what he had to say today.
GASPARINO: Can't wait.
DODD [video clip]: We're in the deepest economic crisis in the lifetime of any living American, and they're worried about their pay. Our system of economy is at risk these days, and we'll be judged by history as to whether or not we could respond intelligently to it.
GASPARINO: "Judged by history," huh?
KUDLOW: What a horri -- wait a second. It got even better than that. These horrible people are worried about their pay, Charlie. Imagine that. How materialistic.
File this with Lou Dobbs's Independent Candidacy for President and Chris Matthews's campaign for the US Senate. These blowhards are full of themselves, they just can't resist floating their names as candidates for public office now and then. Of course it will come to absolutely nothing, but they'll soak up the praise and "come on you should do its" for a few months before pulling the plug.
How long before we find out that Kudlow doesn't live in Connecticut, or hasn't been registered to vote, or has not voted in several recent elections, or has been in contract negotiations with CNBC and used his "Senate candidacy" as a ploy to get a higher salary?
He sounds like Matthews, Buchanan, Franken and others who think they know better. At least Jerry Springer stopped himself in Ohio. Just because you are a celebrity doesn't make you the right person to seek office.
It is unimaginable that Kudlow, the guy with the absoluty most grating voice, thinks he could add anything to the Senate. Chris Dodd is a great legislator, willing to work across the aisle, well informed about any bill coming up in the Senate. He also has the rare Senatorial qualites of integrity and common snese. Those two traits are woefully lacking in Kudlow. Besides, Kudlow's voice alone is so grating. I cannot imagine folks from Connecticut voting for the blowhard.
They voted for Lieberman, who makes Droopy the dog sound masculine.
Larry Kudlow, the Fountain of Misinformation, the faux economist who has hasn't gotten anything economic, right, since I've been listening/watching him. This is the same guy who up until VERY recently: liked the weak dollar; thought the "Goldilocks" economy was simply suffering from undo pessimism; championed home ownership as the bellweather of economic stability; and offered up Sarah Palin as the perfect VP candidate to John McCain.
Why Barack Obama breahted life back into his moribund and on the ropes career is beyond me.
Word is that Larry Kudlow is going to apologize to Rush Limbaugh, not only on behalf of himself for anything he might have said about Limbaugh but also on behalf of any of his future Republican constituents who have ever said, or thought, anything bad about Limbaugh. ;>)
And what did you use to gague Sen Dodd's graps of the facts? What, they didn't line up with your conservative ideology and talking points, so therefore they must be wrong?
Out of curiosity, just because I guess I missed this, on WHAT GROUNDS exactly was he suggesting that Senator Dodd be impeached? (Or was it the typical old conervative nonsense that anyone who's not both conservative and republican should be impeached just because.)