Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three Martinis coming up.

Hey, very glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

We've got two good Martinis and a crazy one in store for you today.

But let's start with a follow up to yesterday's.

We talked about how Ben Cardin was retiring in Maryland at Tough Climb for any Republican

particularly in a presidential year, but you said if Larry Hogan was thinking about making

a difference past his governorship, he should take a closer look at it even though he said

he wasn't interested a few weeks ago.

Once again saying he's not going to do it saying I'm getting a lot of calls about that,

getting called by senators, donors, getting lots of inquiries from the media, but the thing

that surprised me the most was that my wife said, why don't you run for the Senate?

I told her she was crazy, he said.

I mean, I didn't have any interest in being a senator.

So Jim, tip number one, never tell your wife she's crazy, but number two, what do you

make of the fact that Larry Hogan has once again definitively said he's not interested

in this race?

Yeah.

So when I wrote about this in the corner yesterday, kind of expanding on the comments during

our discussion yesterday, I was like, look, it's your life, you know, maybe Larry Hogan

thinks being in the Senate would be an absolute bore, right?

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