Conservative writer Quin Hillyer is the first person to openly make a full-throated case for Cuccinelli to throw his hat into the ring to take on incumbent Sen. Mark Warner, a popular Democrat in the Commonwealth.
“The best news from Ken Cuccinelli’s hugely disappointing loss in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest yesterday is that Cuccinelli is now free to run for U.S. Senate against Mark Warner,” Hillyer wrote.
“Not that Cuccinelli will want to hear this now,” Hillyer elaborated. “He has a large family, and his day job as state attorney general will end in the new year, and he will need to make money somehow. That’s tough to do while running statewide for office. And it’s even tougher when one is already exhausted and battered from a long and brutal statewide race. But Cuccinelli is actually well positioned, politically, to make a go of it, even against an incumbent as seemingly bulletproof as Warner has been.
Provided he NEVER HIRES HIS CURRENT CAMPAIGN TEAM TO RUN THIS SENATE RACE PERIOD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES PERIOD this could reasonably happen.
I’d be a full-throated supporter. Besides, Cuccinelli’s resources will be better, and this will be a campaign where his national issues converge with his Virginia reputation and boom — Mark Warner will have more on his hands quicker than he can say “no one will lose their health care because of Obamacare” — right?
Thoughts?
UPDATE: Jim Riley over at Virginia Virtucon thinks it’s not just a good idea, but a masterstroke:
Cuccinelli can argue that Obamacare is hurting the economy and destroying full-time job opportunities as a means to hammer Warner on jobs and his failure to do anything significant in the Senate. No wonder Warner was part of the meeting of 16 Democrat U.S. Senators who are up for reelection next year to visit the White House yesterday to talk about the problems with Obamacare.
Boom.
