Will MSNBC’s Chris Mathews Run For Senate?

MSNBC’s highly-partisan Chris Matthews, the ‘Squeaky’ voiced maestro of MSBNC, is thinking about running for Senate in 2010 now that Arlen Specter’s cancer has returned. ROGER J. STONE JR. says on The StoneZone website Matthews is a celebrity in his own mind. Even in the pre-national network days, he would spend a half hour combing and re-combing his hair in the mirror. He loves the sound of his own voice and ogling attractive women is a standard part of his act.

Stone’s conservative credentials go back about as far and are as deep as Mathews liberal connections and record. The nightly Hardball honcho served in left winger Eugene McCarthy’s anti-Vietnam war camp; worked for Senator Ed Muskie, ran for Congress in 1974 getting a miserable 23%, was a Carter speechwriter before making his bones as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neill. Matthews contends he voted for Bush in 2000 but, his anti-war, draft dodger history has retransformed and ensconced him in the left ditch where he has lead the liberal sharpshooter squad against Hillary Clinton.

Perhaps Mathews most Michelle Obama-like quote has been “We’re at war. We have to root for the country to some extent. You’re not supposed to be too aggressively critical of a country at combat, especially when it’s your own.” Cute.

My bet is unless Specter’s seat goes open in 2010 or before and a chump is running for it — Matthews won’t run lest he ding his carefully and oft self-polished image, and especially so that NBC and MSNBC act more like the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s than supposedly complimentary news outlets.