Here’s something you don’t hear often from a potential candidate:

“The Emmys are Sept. 18 and I’ll probably make a decision after that.”

So says Delray Beacher Nick Loeb, the boyfriend of Modern Family actress and Emmy nominee Sofia Vergara, when discussing the possibility he’ll enter the 2012 race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. Loeb flirted with a Senate run earlier this year, then appeared to drop it. But after Mike Haridopolos quit the race Monday, Loeb said on Twitter that he’s looking “more closely” at running.

“Now that Mike Haridopolos has dropped out of the race I’m sure there’s going to be other people who are interested in running,” Loeb said today. “I probably won’t be making a decision until sometime after Labor Day. I would say more toward the end of September…The Emmys are Sept. 18 and I’ll probably make a decision after that. Right now I’m supporting Sofia and her career.”

Nick Loeb and Sofia Vergara talk politics with Billy Bush on the Golden Globes red carpet in this Access Hollywood video.

Palm Beach County has seen one rich guy with Hollywood ties enter a U.S. Senate race. But wealthy Delray Beacher Nick Loeb, considering a 2012 GOP run for Sen. Bill Nelson’s seat, tells The Palm Beach Post he’s nothing like 2010 Dem candidate Jeff Greene.

Read about it in this week’s Politics column.