Yeah. He was against amnesty before he resigned and decided to toy with a political seat, then suddenly he was for it.
'Nuff said.
Posted on 11/26/2009 6:51:30 PM PST by neverdem
The Lou Dobbs-for-Senate rumor had barely crested when the Lou Dobbs-for-president rumor suddenly overtook it this week.
Mr. Dobbs, the former cable television anchor of the sonorous voice and tough-talking immigration politics, parted ways with CNN on Nov. 11, reportedly receiving an $8 million severance payment, and immediately stirred questions about his plans.
His name was quickly floated as a potential challenger in 2012 to United States Senator Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat, an ardent advocate for immigrants’ rights and the chamber’s only Hispanic member. (Mr. Dobbs, 64, lives on a horse farm in rural Wantage, N.J.)
Then, on Monday, Mr. Dobbs said he had been urged to ponder a White House run, and was indeed thinking about it. “Yes is the answer,” he told former Senator Fred D. Thompson, who reached Mr. Dobbs at his vacation home in West Palm Beach, Fla., and broadcast the interview on his radio program.
What’s unclear is whether Mr. Dobbs, who branded himself “Mr. Independent” on CNN and talks prodigiously about his scorn for partisan politicians on a radio program syndicated to more than 200 stations, would run as an independent or seek the nomination of the Republican Party, which he spurned in 2006, switching his registration to independent.
On Monday, Mr. Dobbs told Mr. Thompson he did not know which way he was leaning on a presidential bid, but said he would “be talking some more with some folks who want me to listen to them the next few weeks.”
Later, he told a Washington radio station, “For the first time, I’m actually listening to some people about politics,” adding: “I think that being in the public arena means you’ve got to be part of the solution.”
By Tuesday, Mr. Dobbs had apparently begun screening his calls: the phones rang off...
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Really hard to trust people who flip flop.
Steppingstone is not a word...however "stepping stone" or even "stepping-stone" is.
Maybe they were thinking of Steppenwolf. Now there's a word with an interesting history!
....methinks Lou waaaay overestimates his popularity...and he waaay underestimates how much rough and tumble there is in a political campaign...it’s one thing to pontificate from behind a broadcast desk...quite another to be a gut fighter on the campaign trail.
You can’t gey much worse than Menendez.
Other than being against illegal aliens and for more fair than free trade, Dobbs usually struck me as a Ross Perot type. Does anyone know anything else about him?
just what we need another bloody idiot stateist in the senate.
I don’t know a great deal about Lou Dobbs, other than what he’s spoken of on television. I applaud his positions on trade and illegal aliens, but am unsure as to how well they will play in New Jersey.
Just illustrates why our system is so poisoned with ineptitude. Senator is now regarded as an entry level position. Maybe Lou should try out for a county superviser or PTA president first.
Who the hell is Lou Dobbs?
Dobbs is such a Joke.
Good point. While he’s got a BS in Economics from Harvard, he’s spent his whole career working in radio and television. He’s never run anything, or run FOR anything. Be interesting to see what those who feel Sarah Palin’s executive experience was inadequate have to say about Dobbs complete lack thereof.
Yeah. He was against amnesty before he resigned and decided to toy with a political seat, then suddenly he was for it.
'Nuff said.
I understand Dobbs is now for amnesty flip flop
Exactly, being a host of a tv show takes one set of skills. Running a winning statewide campaign takes another set of skills. A few may overlap, but they are just different tasks.
BTW, this is part of the reason a woman like Sarah Palin can help conservatives best as an elected official and will leave talk shows to Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, etc where our bench is quite deep.
I respected Dobbs when he defended Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, but he does flip-flop a lot on the issues and I would never vote for him for anything. He should have kept his day job.
“Running a winning statewide campaign takes another set of skills.”
...Amen!....and the first set of skills he will have to master is fund raising....Senate campaigns are multi-million dollar efforts....raising millions is a far cry from getting paid millions as a celebrity broadcaster.
I agree. Nothing like starting at the top because it’s ‘them’. Hillary - she had a law degree and lived in the WH. Carpetbags to NY to become senator by forcing Moynihan out - although it’s said he declined to run for re-election in 2000.
“Who the hell is Lou Dobbs?”
Ross Perot.
Senate is not an executive position.
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