If the three major cable networks…CNN, Fox, and MSNOW…are smart, they’ll engage in a bidding war to hire soon-to-be former Congressman Mike Lawler as a program host.
Lawler lost his seat not due to poor job performance, but to Chuck Schumer’s ability to identify and recruit a female combat veteran, high gas prices, and voter desire to give majority control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats.
God knows his talents are too valuable to waste on weekends on WABC radio, patiently responding to irate callers who assail his assertion that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square.
Lawler is thoughtful, articulate, a fitting successor to one of his, my, and hopefully, your, heroes…Arizona Senator John McCain…and…perhaps most important, he is gracious, as he demonstrated in conceding to Cait Conley early on Tuesday evening. .
My preference would be for him to join CNN, where he could moderate panels comprising both conservatives and liberals, but he would be equally compatible on Fox…trying to wrangle Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld, or on MSNOW, disagreeing without being disagreeable while replying to Rachel Maddow or Laurence O’Donnell.
Taking a cable tv job would accomplish two things; enable Lawler to make some really big bucks…always a consideration for a father of young children who will surely attend college someday…and maintain a public presence if (when?) he decides to seek another government position in four years.
After all, Kathy Hochul probably wouldn’t win a third term.
And Zohran and AOC can’t win statewide.
Jim Vespe, Mamaroneck