February 17, 2009 07:16 PM UTC

This Guy (?) for U.S. Senate

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• by: Colorado Pols

We’ve been hearing talk about this for weeks now, and most Republicans we have talked to have all but laughed it off. But the Rocky Mountain News reports that Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier, the goofball in the laughably-staged picture at left, somehow believes that he could be a strong Republican candidate for…wait for it…U.S. Senate.

Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier is seriously considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010, testing his ability to raise the millions of dollars needed to challenge Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.

Frazier, a black Republican, has met with GOP movers and shakers in Washington, D.C., and Colorado.

“There are a lot of options I need to look at and a lot of things I need to consider before I make a definite decision,” he said.

Financing a campaign is among those considerations.

“I’m going through the motions and paces right now to see if I can raise the money,” he said. “I think we can put together a winning campaign. I’m moving in that direction.”

As we said earlier, most Republicans we’ve talked to have basically laughed this off. Frazier barely won re-election to the Aurora City Council a few years ago – the idea that he’s ready for a jump to the U.S. freakin’ Senate is downright silly.

On the plus side for Democrats, Frazier would be one of the few candidates Republicans could nominate with lower name ID than Democrat Michael Bennet. And labor unions would absolutely tee off on Frazier, who was the public face behind the soundly-defeated Amendment 47, or, “Right to Work.”