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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This man is our savior. He is the right man at the right hour. He is anti baby killing . he is anti illegal alien . he is anti “nation building” and he is pro America!! He knows what ruined the nation> It wad globalism and “Free Trade” (meaning free to fire everyone and go to Mexico with your factory!!!). Lou is right for America . Let Palin go third party but Lou will save the Republican party!!!
Thanks neverdem.
Guess what? He changed his mind on the illegal alien=
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117140
He wouldn’t surprise me if he were working to get Obama elected to a 2nd term.
Lou Dobbs is just like Joe Lieberman, a life long liberal that happens to agree with one, maybe two issues that the right agrees with.
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