Posted on 02/10/2010 5:17:18 PM PST by freespirited
So says John Lakian, a longtime friend of the supply-side economist and TV host who just signed on as the finance chair of the group trying to draft him into the race against New York's senior senator.
Lakian, a Wall Street financier and two-time unsuccessful candidate (for governor and US Senate) in Massachusetts, said he spoke last week with Kudlow and did not get a feeling from him about a timeline for a decision.
But Lakian doesn't believe there's any rush - even in the face of the $19.3 million war chest on which Schumer is sitting.
"It really is an overwhelming amount of cash," Lakian acknowledged. "But if he picks up a rival like Larry Kudlow...Larry is a very, very well respected economist. He's very popular on Wall Street, very popular from the standpoint of the economic ideology that he believes in, and he would be able to garner very substantial amounts of money very quickly."
"Would he be able to equal Schumer? Of course not. Schumer had a head start, and you can only raise so much, so fast. On the other hand, now corporations can do independent expenditures at a substantial level. I think a lot of corporations in this country - both small and big - would be doing independent expenditures for Larry Kudlow."
Lakian said he doesn't see any reason for Kudlow to give up his show and the national platform it provides until the very last moment before he announces his candidacy - assuming he runs at all - perhaps even as late as April.
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Contrast that with Sarah ... who says that we should not apply a test for conservatives.
So Sarah Palin does not agree with you.
Now I completely disagree with that. But I'm a hard a$$.
I will never change my mind. I want all illegals, no matter what flavor, to be thrown out of this country. Period.
That's great. Our country needs more people like you, and fewer people who muddy the water--such as those who claim someone is in favor of "open borders" when it's probably (still giving the benefit of the doubt) not true.
He’s also a columnist & blogger for National Review. I don’t agree with him on every economic forecast, but even if he is ‘open-border’ (I don’t remember) he would only be representing the opinion of his Wall Street constituents. I don’t think enough FReepers realize that “not conservative enough” was a joke...
Kudlow supports Amnesty. Just fyi
Start spreading the news...
I listen to his show on Saturday. He is a supply sider. He is just soft on illegal immigration. If it were not for that I could like the guy.
I'm more afraid of the people who took Lou Dobbs' side (and believed Dobbs) when Dobbs and Kudlow were butting heads . . . Dobbs was misrepresenting Kudlow's position at the time, and when Dobbs came out of the closet in favor of "amnesty" himself (I have to use the word in quotations because it means different things to different people), he proved himself to be a charlatan.
A Lefty replacing a Lefty. If the Democrat wins in November I guess it is better to have the one with less seniority.
But he is Keynesian in his economics. That negates anything he might say favorable to freemarket capitalism. He is NOT an economist. He is a political financialist.
WHOA! sorry. I saw Kudlow and thought Krugman. I like Kudlow. He is an actual economist and a good man, even if he is a Democrat or Hare Krishna or something else weird.
I haven't watched Kudlow every day... just catch him every once in a while... but I've never seen anything that leads me to believe he's a Keynesian. Seems more of an Adam Smith or Milton Friedman sort of fellow.
He's a little too obnoxious to take in large doses, but if it gets Shumer out of there, and makes for some excellent CSPAN coverage... hey, I'm ALL FOR IT.
well let’s just hope that Larry doesn’t refer to Schumer as a “putz-head” or else the MSM will make it a slam-dunk for Schumer.
PLEASE see my #52 of 55 retraction.
I like Kudlow even more for having the guts to challenge Schemer instead of throwing his hat in for the Gillibrand seat. And the fact that Schemer flip-flopped on the NY trials tells me that he must’ve seen some bad polling numbers.
So right and so simple...yet seemingly impossible for many to understand!
Call it whatever you want. He seems to look at it as a free-market issue: People will come if there's work, and not if there isn't, and it will prevent our wages from being too high to compete globally, something like that.
I'm afraid it's between you and the radio from here. Let me know what you discover.
You still fail to see the original problem: you shouldn't call it what you want. (Not if the subject of illegal immigration is important to you, that is).
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