Thread: Dark Horse Dobbs?

Dark Horse Dobbs?
By Denise Williams
Jan 17th 2008 10:25PM




Bloomberg is Bust, Nader is Nothing! The best non-candidacy rumors continue to swirl around CNN's Lou Dobbs.

Our favorite xenophobe and CNN anchor has elicited whispers before with his columns on CNN.com last fall claiming that a "independent populist" could win the White House because Republicans and Democrats are tired of it all and would tend to independent if the right person was running. Wink, wink.

Hell, the Wall Street Journal's John Fund even swallowed it whole:

No one, seemingly, is listening to the average-but-angry voter," notes the Boston Phoenix. "So an independent populist-style candidacy could fill a huge vacuum." Mr. Dobbs, who has written best-selling books deploring the government's "war on the middle class," would be a natural fit in this campaign playing the role of the anchorman in the 1970s movie "Network," who bellowed, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.

So it's no great surprise that some of Lou's choir have started up a website.

Americans for Legal Immigration or ALIPAC has started a Draft Dobbs movement. From their website:

An ALIPAC release says it was officially starting its draft Dobbs effort because of "the possibility of a pro-amnesty candidate such as John McCain, Rudy Giuliani or Mike Huckabee winning the GOP primary, forcing American voters to choose between two pro-amnesty candidates" (i.e., anyone the Democrats nominate).

The website was established, the release says, "to allow people to express their political support for Lou Dobbs, to show Mr. Dobbs what kind of support is out there, and to have some supporters organized, if he decides to run."

Mr. Dobbs himself has been appropriately coy, flattered and non-committal. Here his telling Wolf he'll never say never:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oayrCbh6iQc

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2 ... rse-dobbs/

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I'll vote for him if he puts Ron Paul in charge of the Monitary policy or leading the FED

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

I'll vote for him if he puts Ron Paul in charge of the Monitary policy or leading the FED

I'll vote for Lou regardless, but would like to see him place Duncan Hunter as Sec of Defense. Would also like to see the Homeland Security taken apart; it's worthless and put FEMA back where it belongs. I think anybody with a half of a brain would vote for Lou Dobbs, because once he starts talking to crowds, he's going to make things perfectly clear to all of them.

I became a fan about 8 months ago when an associate told me I sounded like Lou Dobbs. I said, "He's a financial and economics reporter, why would I sound like him?". Long story short, I started watching and heard the issues he addresses. I am a dedicated fan of Lou Dobbs now and I hope, no, I pray, he will run as an independent.

I would vote for Lou before anyone else. I, too, would hope he put Hunter and Paul in his Cabinet.

Isn't it too late for Dobbs to get in the race now? IT would seem to me he would fragment the Repub vote thus helping the Dems. I'd figure Dobbs would run as an independent if anything right?