Imagine Kelsey Grammer as the next resident of Gracie Mansion.
The “Frasier” star — a longtime conservative Republican — now says he plans to run for office, perhaps right here in New York, when he gives up acting.
“I have had a great career and extraordinary opportunities,” he told The Post. “But I look at my political aspirations as that last piece of my life — where I hope to do something good for people and pay back a little.”
The leap from actor to politician isn’t that great, the actor believes. Both, he says, require a “narcissistic personality” to succeed.
“You certainly have to have a resilient ego,” Grammer says.
Grammer — who left the Broadway revival of “La Cage Aux Folles” last February — is set to play fictional Chicago Mayor Tom Kane in a new drama called “Boss,” set to premiere this fall on the Starz network.
And the prospect of the new role has, it seems, got him thinking about doing something like it in real life.
Grammer is not only one of Hollywood’s rare anti-tax, small-government Republicans, but he is an activist. Unlike a lot of actors who like to give their opinions on issues, he campaigns for and travels with candidates he likes — and he is a big-time giver to conservative causes.
In the last presidential election, he endorsed Rudy Giuliani but ended up going on the road for Sen. John McCain.
He is also the major bankroll behind a small cable channel called Rightnetwork that launched last September and goes by the slogan “All that’s Right with the world.”
“It is not unfamiliar for me to have a point of view that might be considered out of the norm in my community,” he says.
Grammer, 56, is light on specifics about when his days as an actor might end or which office he has his eye set on.
But he is clear that he has moved from LA permanently and is a New Yorker now. If and when he runs, it would likely be here, he says.
What is left unspoken is the considerable money — mostly from the reruns of “Frasier” — he could pour into an election, if he chose to.
While not in the same league as New York’s current mayor, multi-billionaire Mike Bloomberg, Grammer’s personal-wealth reportedly ranges up to nearly $100 million — a good sum with which to start a political career.
Already this week, he is taking a side on the debt-ceiling crisis.
“Even the solution they are talking about now — the 10-year, $3-trillion solution — that has to be paid for. Nobody is talking about actually getting rid of the debt that exists already,” he says. “That doesn’t make any sense. It’s first-grade math.”
Grammer says he began to mull the prospect of changing his life after suffering a minor heart-
attack three years ago.
“I spent several months sort of looking at my own life,” he says. “And I just decided I didn’t want to have [“Hank,” the ill-fated sitcom he starred in last year for Fox] be my last story.
“So, I decided that it was time to make changes that involved my career, as well as my personal life. Doing a drama started to make really good sense, because it took me back to my roots.”