Lou Dobbs for president?
By on Jan 7th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Lou Dobbs for president?
Today, the Wall Street Journal notes that CNN’s Lou Dobbs is increasingly being mentioned as a potential independent presidential candidate by pundits such as Robert Novak. Dobbs’s response:
Mr. Dobbs says he isn’t planning to run. “I haven’t got the personality or nature to be a politician,” he said in an interview Thursday. But he makes clear he hasn’t ruled out the idea. “I cannot say never,” he said.
Dobbs himself also “fanned the presidential speculation in November, posting a column on CNN’s Web site that floated the idea that a surprise candidate was poised to enter the race.”
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Got colossal ego...?
Yikes.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:01 pmYou just know he's going to court the illegal immigrant vote.
(/sarcasm off)
January 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pmI always picture Dobbs, after another show, sitting in some exclusive club, drinking very expensive scotch, congratulating himself on another great night on TV.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pm" “I haven’t got the personality or nature to be a politician,†he said..."
actually, Lou, you don't have the personality or nature to be human.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pmOh, god! Let me make sure that this is a nightmare that I am experiencing.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pmOh, hell, I think it's a great idea. Dobbsie certainly won't be siphoning any votes from the Democrats.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:06 pmAnyone who has seen the movie "Children of Men" will probably understand that Mr. Dobbs came to my mind during that movie.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:14 pmOh, I hope he runs. All the anti-immigration Tancredoites will flock to his shadow. This may yet be the biggest Democratic landslide ever.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:19 pmDobbs is a one-trick-pony. His ego will never tolerate the scrutiny into his personal life.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:20 pmThis is xenophobe's pipedream.
Dobbs for prez is only nominally improved over Rush Limpdick for prez. LMFAO!
January 7th, 2008 at 5:24 pmThat's a funny one, TP.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pmDobbs really isn't that bad. He has trashed Bush over and over again on a continuing basis, especially over Iraq and the economy and for cozying up to the corporations that ship jobs overseas. For that, Dobbs deserves great priase. It's his single minded obssession against illegal immigrants that bugs me and why I could never support a Dobbs candidacy. But the rest of the time, Dobbs is one of the good guys.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pmGag-o-rama.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pmIt’s his single minded obssession against illegal immigrants that bugs me and why I could never support a Dobbs candidacy. But the rest of the time, Dobbs is one of the good guys.
Comment by Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver — January 7, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
I have to agree with you on this. Reminds me of Buchanan a bit. They both don't see Bush as a real Conservative. However, I would not want either one as president.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pmCaption Contest" "Look Im Moby Dick!"
January 7th, 2008 at 5:47 pmComment by Clear Conservative — January 7, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
Keep an eye on the troll while he tries to derail this thread, bit by bit.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:01 pmKeep an eye on the troll while he tries to derail this thread, bit by bit.
Comment by gummitch
Yep...CC is not posting to express any valid views he/she may hold. An uneducated, unpatriotic thorn in our side, to be sure.
Oh CC, I hear redstate is calling for you. Now, there is a sensible group of nutjobs. You should feel right at home.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pmI agree with Starve a Bush Feed a Beaver.
Dobbs has some seriously flawed reasoning when it comes to immigration and security, however:
1. He recognizes the role played by big business in encouraging illegal immigration.
2. He understands what should be a fairly basic principle in economics: one must be able to gainfully employ a large majority of its work force in order to prosper over the long term.
3. He does recognize that the middle class is under attack. (I do not know if he realizes that the working and poor have already been sunk.)
January 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pmWhen one gets an endorsement from a traitor like Novak... that's got to be good.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:11 pmYou mean, a sensible group of real Americans who provide the voice OF America, as the majority desire.
Redstate.org, everybody.
Comment by Clear Conservative
Yeah, nimrod. That's what I meant. Were'nt the communists the 'red' ones?
January 7th, 2008 at 6:12 pmWe'd be hanging undocumented immigrants on TV!
January 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pmIf dummocrats care so much about the middle class and working poor, why won’t they fight illegal immigration? The concept is simple: an overflowing labor pool makes it tougher for the needy already in this country to find work. -CC
Why did Bush want to give them amnesty?
January 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pmGeorge says the illegals do the work that Americans dont want to do CC.
Maybe you should take your foolish projectionism to a conservative site and point fngers at yourselves.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:15 pmWhy does Mexico always have to overpopulate itself and create shortages in everything needed? -CC
Gee, because they are atheists? Oh, wait thats wrong. My bad.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:16 pmBe a krank @ TPZoo.org!
Be an America-hating kook @ TPZoo.org!
Comment by Clear Conservative — January 7, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
Thanks for the publicity but, please, don't give up on your meds!
January 7th, 2008 at 6:17 pmBe an America-hating kook @ TPZoo.org!
Comment by Clear Conservative
I havent outsourced jobs to China or India now have I?
January 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pmI just have to laugh at Clear Con and its engrained hypocrisy.
Free Market Capitalism!! I Outsource American jobs to China because I am an America Lover!!
January 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pmOMG...
January 7th, 2008 at 6:25 pmPlease don't turn this thread over to CC too. It has pretty much polluted every thread today and you are all playing into it's hands by giving it what it wants...attention!
January 7th, 2008 at 6:26 pmYOU STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!
Comment by Clear Conservative
Awww poor widdle victim of your ills.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:27 pmHe'll win votes with his friendly demeanour and kind smile. This guy makes Mitt 'Double Guantanamo' Romney look like Anne Hathaway.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:31 pmHmmmm. Perhaps if all of Bush's rich friends who employ illegal aliens and pay them $2.00 an hour under the table were rounded up and prosecuted, it might have a ...chilling... effect on that problem of undocumented workers, eh...?
January 7th, 2008 at 6:38 pmYOU STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!
Comment by Clear Conservative
The baby can dish it out, but cannot take it.
Just like todays chickenhawk "conservatives".
Hilarious.
Just for reference, we are not laughing at you, we are laughing with you. /snicker
ok, the truth.... we are laughing our a$$es off at you.
January 7th, 2008 at 7:32 pmBWAAAHAHAHAHAH!
Yer one trick pony just puked.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:13 pmOn a tangent of the above - regarding wages: How come the repubs hate the minimum wage, but when it comes to illegal immigration, the ultimate evil is that it keeps wages too low ?
January 7th, 2008 at 8:15 pmBecause realistically, they don't hate immigration (Illegal or otherwise) due to lowered wages or any of the other reasons they give. It's just an excuse for their racism.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:57 pmUhh, Tancredo already dropped out of the race because his one issue BS didn't fly. Dobbs would just be a carbon-copy.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:27 amI have been watching Dobbs for years and I dont think most of you can get past his objections with illegal immigration. I'll submit that I don't watch him that much anymore because I too am a bit tired of the immigrant issue. HOWEVER, most of you have him wrong! He truly is for middle America which is what the Democrats used to be for. He is not a racist, he has said that we should make the immigration process more transparent and efficeint and perhaps raise the cap on the number allowed in the country. That is not being racist, that is being a realist. Illegal immigrants only enrich the corporations and lower wages for Americans.
He rants against falling wages, big corporations run amok, unsafe imports and outsourcing jobs.... gee that sounds a lot like what Democrats used to be for?!?!
January 8th, 2008 at 8:26 amOh yeah, did i forget to mention that he thinks Bush is one of the worst presidents of all times. How can you dislike him that much?
January 8th, 2008 at 10:08 am