Lou Dobbs says he might be a candidate for President!
Posted on Monday, February 25 @ 07:36:57 EST
Topic: Lou Dobbs CNN Anchor
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 Aired February 21, 2008 - 17:00 ET
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
On CNN on hour before the Lou Dobbs Show
BLITZER: Check in with Lou Dobbs to see what's on his mind right now. His show begins in an hour.
Lou, when you take a look at this contest right now, independent voters
out there, whether the moderate center on both sides or people who just
don't see themselves as Republicans or Democrats, how do you think this
is going to break when it comes down to the two person contest?
LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, for the two-person contest moving into
the general election, you know, I think you've got two candidates who
are going to have to move quite a distance to get to the center.
Independents in this country live at the center of the country as do
most Americans. And these candidates, whether it's Obama, whether it's
Clinton, whether it's McCain or even Huckabee, they got a ways to go to
get to the center.
BLITZER: Because McCain's reputation out there is really as sort of
a maverick and independent. He's gone against the White House on
several issues. He's gone against his fellow Republicans on several
issues, one of two Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts in
2001, as you remember. Only Lincoln Chafee, the former senator from
Rhode Island, joined him on the Republican side...
DOBBS: Right.
BLITZER: Does that appeal to the independents out there?
DOBBS: I don't think so. I don't think so at all. I think that maverick
thing is - you know I think most Americans and you know all of us can
really only speak for ourselves but I truly believe most Americans want
reason. They want compassion. And they want people who are concerned
about a government that is not representing the majority in this
country. They want the national interest represented. Not special
interests or ethnocentric interests.
They want the common good represented. And they're desperate for
that. I think we all are. The partisanship that is playing out this
year, frankly, these candidates, as you know I'm an independent. I'm a
populous. I don't have a dog in the hunt as I've said time and time
again but I think these are amongst the most disappointing candidates
we could have possibly put forward from a nation of 300 million people.
BLITZER: So does that mean a viable third party alternative candidate is not going to necessarily emerge or will emerge?
DOBBS: I happen to believe that a third party candidate will emerge
because there is such a void here in leadership and that I think it's
almost a certainty.
BLITZER: All right. But it's not going to be Lou Dobbs, right?
[b]DOBBS: Well, as I have said before, you never say never and I might
be a candidate last resort but I'm sure as heck not a candidate now.
thank you very much.
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BLITZER: Lou Dobbs, thanks. We'll see you here on CNN in one hour.
Lots of news coming up on his program "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT." Lou, thanks
very much.
Quote: I might be a candidate last resort
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