Will Mark Steyn be my next Senator?

  I am sure most readers of America’s Watchtower know who Mark Steyn is: he is an author with an uncanny wit and a dry, sarcastic sense of humor who sometimes fills in for Rush Limbaugh. (Personally, I only find Rush Limbaugh’s show to be listenable when Mark Steyn is hosting, but that is neither here nor there.) He also happens to be a resident of New Hampshire.

 Hugh Hewitt has started a petition to draft Mark Steyn to run against Jeanne Shaheen in the 2014 election. The petition can be seen here.

  When pressed by Hewitt about running against Jeanne Shaheen he did not say yes, but he did not say no either:

But in his regular appearance on Thursday, Steyn expressed his disappointment in the lack of the quality of candidates considering a run for the seat, but he didn’t entirely rule it out either.

[M]y heart sank somewhat when I read in the Union Leader, I think it was the other day, about those who were preparing to run against Jeanne Shaheen for U.S. Senate seat,” Steyn wrote. “And I wish this state was the way it was 20 years ago, but the New Hampshire Republican Party was too often was content to be in office rather than in power. That’s a problem with the Republican Party generally, I feel. And suddenly I regret that Jeanne Shaheen was able to defeat John Sununu six years ago and I will take yours advice having just given my Palmerstonian speech, I’m not sure that’s something Granite Staters are ready for

Well, I for one am ready for it, bring it on! Jeanne Shaheen has a large war chest already, as well as major name recognition, so it will be hard to defeat her. Mark Steyn would be able to raise money and has name recognition, he could give her a run for her money.

  He does note the difficulty he would have running as a writer because he knows what he has written could come back to haunt him–he surely pissed some people off with his writing and that could play against him:

One of the great things about running — about writers running is they have hostages to fortune at least, they’re the people least suited to run for office in the United States because they don’t just have one damaging quote for somebody you know like that fellow [Todd] Akin or whatever it is. There’s like half a century terrible quotes where the writer runs

  But then, with typical Mark Steyn humor, he states perhaps because he was born in Canada he should set his sights on the presidency:

I don’t know whether I should aim a little higher,” he added. “I don’t know whether I could dust off my Hawaiian birth certificate and just run straight for President. I might as well. Everybody else, everybody else Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio has some sort of incipient birther problem with the 2016 campaign. So I might as well just throw my hat in that one as well

  I hope that Mark Steyn can be persuaded to run if for no other reason than it will take what is shaping up to be a dreary election and make it much more interesting. At least for a little while in New Hampshire. Other states have elected people such as Jesse Ventura and Al Franken so why not Mark Steyn?