This can only be good news for New Yorkers:

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long had a “real positive” dinner meeting with Larry Kudlow earlier this week and came away believing the CNBC host and supply-side economist is “dead serious” about considering a challenge to Sen. Chuck Schumer.

Long, who dined with Kudlow at his invitation at Nicola’s on E 84th Street, said he had been tempted to call Kudlow himself after a Facebook page seeking to draft him into the Senate race was created. But he decided to wait it out and let the would-be candidate come to him, instead.

“I was tempted, but I’ve been down these roads too many times,” Long said. “He called me and said: ‘Look, I’d like to buy you dinner. I want to talk about what’s taking place.’”

“I know him a long time,” the chairman continued. “He’s not a guy who just picks up the phone. That’s not his MO. I’m going to be honest with you – he’s dead serious about considering this.”

…and, by golly, there is a movement afoot urging: Run, Larry, Run!….

DRAFT LARRY KUDLOW FOR NEW YORK
Many New Yorkers agree: it would be difficult to find a federal legislator as bad as US Senator Chuck Schumer. Schumer is personally responsible for much of the bad policy that led to the economic melt down of the United States. He stands firmly in favor of health care reform that is bad for New Yorkers. He supports a tax on banks that is poison for the Empire State. And now, petty bully Schumer is muscling members of his own party, pretending only he may decide who can and cannot run against his hand puppet, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Until Scott Brown was elected to the US Senate by the loopy liberals in Massachusetts, nobody thought it was possible to beat Schumer. Now the game has changed.

There is one potential candidate to oppose Schumer, whose campaign coffers already contain more than $30 million. New York Tea Party leaders are talking up the potential candidacy of CNBC commentator and former Reagan advisor Larry Kudlow. A graduate of the University of Rochester, Kudlow also worked for New York’s legendary Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. As one of the architects of the Reagan tax-cuts that sparked one of the greatest economic booms in modern times, he is recognized as a leading anti-tax supply side economist. The thoughtful, well-spoken and original analyst is one of the most effective debaters on the Right.

New York deserves a better Senator than Chuck Schumer – far, far better. Help us convince Larry Kudlow to enter the Senate race

Oh yes, do. He will bring prosperity to all:

Stock market corrections come and go, but the long wave of prosperity remains intact. My liberterian friend Jim Glassman has just written a book predicting a 36,000 Dow. My supply-side friend Chuck Kadlec has just written a book predicting a 100,000 Dow.

In “American Abundance”, which was published nearly two years ago, I predicted an over 50,000 Dow. Naturally, we all like to hang out with our friends. I believe my friends and I will be proven right.

This little bear correction will end before too long. Then there will be stock market bargains galore. Stay invested. Stay optimistic. Keep the faith. Faith is always the spirit.

To be fair that was written in 1999, and it may have been the irrational exuberance talking.