Lou Dobbs On Whether He’s Thought About Running For President: ‘Yes Is The Answer’
Lou Dobbs On Whether He’s Thought About Running For President: ‘Yes Is The Answer’
Last week, rumors spread that former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs might challenge Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in 2012. But in an interview on Fred Thompson’s radio show today, Dobbs said that he is actually considering a run for the White House:
THOMPSON: Lou, one way to have a voice — you’ve already had a big one, but another way to have a voice is in public service. Have you given any thought to perhaps running for president?
DOBBS: I’m talking — yes is the answer. And I’m going to be talking some more with some folks who want me to listen to them in the next few weeks. You know, I, so I just don’t even what to tell you in terms of where I’m leaning because right now I’m fortunate to have a number of wonderful options. I do know this, I’m going to have the best advice. I may make a terrible decision, but I’m going to have great advice.
Listen here:
In 2008, Dobbs was rumored to be considering a shot at becoming the governor of New Jersey. When Dobbs announced he was leaving CNN, he said that “some leaders in media, politics, and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving.”
Dobbs gave no indication of what, if any, party affiliation he would campaign under. A self-described “independent populist,” Dobbs would likely run as an Independent candidate. “I think something on the order of an independent movement will come if these two parties fail the American people again,” he said in 2007.
There are already multiple Draft Dobbs for President websites, although the “Lou Dobbs 2012″ site will soon be shutting down due to a lack of funds.
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That would be ‘waddle’ for President, wouldn’t it?
On the Hate/Bigot/FatWhiteGuy ticket?
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pmHe’s got the Minutemen vote locked down for sure.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm“mr mumbles for president”
hey lou, i got your slogan all set to go. can i have the job as your campaign manager?
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 pmYes, ever since I lost my mind when the current president was elected I have been thinking about bringing my brand of insanity to the Presidential race. Hey, I’m nuts, what do you expect?
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm…and if I’m elected, I promise you that each & every illegal immigrant in this Country will be deported back to where they came from, even if I have to drive Sarah’s bus to Mexico myself!
My grandfather immigrated here himself, but he was White. The very idea that non-whites think they can make this great Country better is ridiculous.
Did you know that an illegal alien may come from other countries than Mexico? Well, I, for one didn’t!
A Vote for Lou is a Vote for You!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:00 pmYou’re debuting on the FOX Business Channel. It’s just a matter of when, Lou. Please.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 pmWill he be running as the candidate of the “Little Chicken Party” or the “Chicken Little Party”? A decision has not been made, but he will be getting good advice on it.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 pmPresident of what? The electric fence with sharpshooters with orders to shoot and kill on the mexican border.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:02 pmLou, I have a great campaign slogan for you.
“I was fired for being a deranged bigot…Vote for me!”
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmCampaign Slogan: “Eight Million Dollars and No Sense”
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:05 pmYeah, like taht’s really gonna happen. Heh.
It would be nice to watch him get smacked around on the campaign trail though.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:05 pmmr mumbles is going to be the first candidate for president with the new “teabagger party” they’ve just formed down in florida. best of luck with that.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmBBBBWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHH
VP Candidate: None, Lou has a big enough ego for both portions of the ticket.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmPlease run as an independent. The comedic value would be priceless.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmCampaign Slogan: ‘I used to have a little credibility before I started opining on immigration’
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 pmCampaign Colors: white lettering on white background (don’t worry about difficulty reading any of the literature because there is no contrast, there’s no content either)
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:10 pmFrom loudobbs4president.net:
Real populism there.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:12 pmWell, I don’t know about you guys, but I have yet to see any concrete evidence that Lou Dobbs was born in the US.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 pmDobbs/Beck 2012. Insanity R Us.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 pmCan this buffoon possibly be any more arrogant? Run for President??? He could not even get 1 million people to tune into his lousy show (he averaged around 650K) on a major cable news channel, but he thinks he’s going to get millions and millions to vote for him? Lou’s picture should be added next to the word “delusional” in the dictionary. Pee Wee Herman has a better chance of being elected President.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 pmLook at it this way…he’ll run as an independent and split the psychopath vote with whatever hard right loser the GOP nominates.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 pmYes! Let’s all run out and elect as POTUS an unproven elderly white male who has never held a single government position! We don’t need no stinkin’ executive experience!
/snark
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 pm“Well, I don’t know about you guys, but I have yet to see any concrete evidence that Lou Dobbs was born in the US.”
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 pmback when mr. mumbles was born, we were still an english colony.
funny.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pmSurely inspired by the unprecedented success of Tancredo ‘08.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pmDobbs: I may make a terrible decision, but I’m going to have great advice.
– - hen that would make your administration 50% better than Bush #43’s.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:27 pm- T
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pmEnnuiDivine says:
Look at it this way…he’ll run as an independent and split the psychopath vote with whatever hard right loser the GOP nominates.
Exactly. He’s not a Palin fan but he wants her supporters.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmSo many good choices for 2012:
Dobbs
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 pmBeck
Palin
Prejean
.
.
I am just picturing the RW array for 2012. Dobbs running on the Nativist Ticket; Palin on the Facebook-Right Ticket; Huckabee as God’s DietMeister; Ron Paul for the Randos; Glen Beck’s Dry-Drunk Secessionists with a Megaphone and Bus.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 pmYa ok on all that independent party stuff…good luck…somehow I can’t see a President with the name Lou
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:34 pmCan he pass the purity test?
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:35 pmCan we just build an asylum for the politically insane that looks like the White House, tell each of these “candidates” that they won and lock them in their room decorated like the Oval Office?
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 pmHas anyone ever not thought of running for President?
Unless history is irrelevant, he has no chance of being elected. Every President in the modern age has shown his–and one day, her–governing ability in another elective office.
He might be electable as a Senator… somewhere.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 pmAt this point, I think it would be sign of utter cowardice for him not to run for President.
*chuckles mischeviously*
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pmWell now every wing nut is running for President. Lou will bring the racist out in full force and still sleep with his immigrant wife and make babies. The list of wackos is increasing as bimbo Palin, drug/alcholic Beck, drug addicted/child molester Rush Limbaugh and who knows who else will enter the race. We barely servived drug/alcoholic non educated George W. Bush as President with 8 years of lies, crimes and murder. The question is will the American want another Bush in the White House to finish off the USA.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pmI encourage him to self-finance.
Tee hee hee.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:40 pmRun Lou Run !!! NOT !!!!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:40 pmI once thought about running for President too, then I graduated…. to the 2nd Grade.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:42 pmI love it. The present list of Republican candidates vying for a 2012 run makes a bowl of Planters Mixed Nuts look boring. Is there a single one of them that isn’t counting on the lunatic fringe suddenly exploding and becoming reality?
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 pm32. Blue53,
Doubtful. He’s pro-choice, against the Federal Marriage Amendment, and against unrestricted free-trade. He’s not a hardcore conservative (by the definition of American conservatism), just a whackjob pseudo-populist.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:47 pmPresident of the Klan?
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 pmIf Dobbs (or Palin) were elected in 2012, the good news is that the world is coming to an end Dec 12, 2012, more than a month before the swearing in Jan 20, 2013. Boy I’m glad we dodged that bullet.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:53 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Huckabee/Bachmann for the fundie crowd.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:53 pmPalin/Beck for the independent bunch
Dobbs,Boner for the traditionalists
Cantor/Jindhal for the hep crowd.
Limbaugh/Steele for the truly delusional.
Thanks to John McCain and Sarah Palin, the bar is now set soooo
low, that anyone who’s had their 15 minutes of fame thinks they’re qualified to be President.
Perhaps Joe the dumber could be his VP.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Heh. Dobbs is going on a comedy tour?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pmDobbs is unelectable
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:05 pmWho needs Lou Dobbs for fighting aliens? You can just go to the SpongeBobSquarePants TV show where SpongeBob’s buddy has just given him a gift of a spray can of “Alien Out.” Problem solved…
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pmWhere’s his LONG form birth certificate?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 pmJust to refresh everyone’s memory a bit, remember the non-democratic candidates in 2008 ?
Paul, Brownback, Tancredo, Thompson, G9lliani, Huckleberry, and McCain actually looked SANE by comparison !
Not much has changed, really.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pmEnnuiDivine–thanks I didn’t think he would–
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:26 pmFor some reason I’m not greatly concerned. Though I do appreciate the irony of this coming from Fred “wouldn’t it be a gas to run for president” Thompson’s show.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pmHe’s a cinch to lock up the giant mutant blob bloc.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:40 pmI’m sorry – Lou Dobbs is a Birther.
It’s not gonna happen, just like his hostile take-over of MSNBC. Not gonna happen for Lou Birther Dobbs.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:10 pmWhy does every republiscum want to be president, and what makes them think they are capable or even wanted?
Narcissism.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 pmha ha ha ha ha….sorry, ha ha ha…oh stop…this is just too funny…Lou Bobbs as President…ha ha ha…okay…gotta stop laffin…need to pee
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm#45 Hoodathunk says:
Huckabee/Bachmann for the fundie crowd.
Palin/Beck for the independent bunch
Dobbs,Boner for the traditionalists
Cantor/Jindhal for the hep crowd.
Limbaugh/Steele for the truly delusional.
That’s a great breakdown! All totaled, they still can’t win a national election.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:31 pmDobbs is a racist nutjob. Let him lead the hateful tea-baggers, it’s all he’s good for.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:52 pmPalin, Dobbs, Huckabee, Prejean, Bachmann, Not-Joe the Not-Plumber– you really wonder if the Repubs can find any lesser people to represent them, yet each day they outdo themselves as they strive for absurdity.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 pmYeah, but can he cut brush? The brush has not been getting cut since W left office. Alarming amount of brush.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:07 pmWhy would anyone who loves this country even a little, look to Lou Dobbs to run for President. Or even to lower themselves to ask the question of such an obviously unqualified individual to govern “all” the american people. We are already seeing what happens in WASH when a new guy comes to town. Obama is having a terrible time getting the congress to act with courage. Imagine the stalemate with the likes of an opinionated bigot like Dobbs in the WH? Of course, the likelihood is far fetched at best.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:48 amYes, that would be a dumb mistake Lou.
Running for president under the independent line only steals the racist conservative vote from republicans and hands Mr. Obama his second term.
The Oligarch’s senses the public opposition to their two party system, so they want to prop up a Ross Perot type figure.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:00 am