Lou Dobbs For President? Consultants Line Up To Empty His Pockets
Lou Dobbs says he’s weighing a 2012 presidental run in an interview with, of all people, Fred Thompson.
Asked by Thompson (who knows something about being misled into believing that you’re a viable presidential candidate) whether he might run, Dobbs replied:
“Yes, is the answer. I’m gonna be talking some more with some folks who want me to listen to them in the next few weeks.”
“I do know this,” Thompson continued. “I’m gonna have the best advice. I may make a terrible decision, but I’m gonna have great advice. One thing that makes me pretty confident about it all is my wife’s gonna be making a good part of that decision.”
Who knows what Dobbs’ wife will tell him. But if Dobbs really thinks he’s gonna get candid advice on his viability in 2012 from political consultants, many of whom will be lining up to empty his pockets of all of that fundraising cash he’d haul in from his fan base, he’s a bigger mark than one would have suspected. The human ego is a frail instrument…
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Oh please, let it be so.
Yes! Run, Lou. Run! You and Sarah Palin running for the Republican nomination would be a dream come true!
Lou is so dreamy.
Now, is “Mr. Independent” talking about running as such, or for the GOP nomination? Because on the latter, he’ll just be a sideshow, but if the former, he could make things interesting… in that he may split the conservative vote with whichever muppet the GOP nominates.
This post cracks me up, Greg!
“Who knows what Dobbs’ wife will tell him. But if Dobbs really thinks he’s gonna get candid advice on his viability in 2012 from political consultants, many of whom will be lining up to empty his pockets of all of that fundraising cash he’d haul in from his fan base, he’s a bigger mark than one would have suspected. The human ego is a frail instrument…”
Oh, from Dobbs’ xenophobic lips to God’s ear. I hope he does run. He needs to be humbled a bit and maybe the drubbing he would surely receive would inflict a little humility upon him. His vanity will be his undoing once again.
Come on Lou, give it a go!
Greg love your snark on this…can you imagine the amount of tape extant to run against this guy? and how he would poison the well for republicans in 2012 by putting a focus on immigration with latinos?
I’m still looking forward to 2010 when the Immigration Reform debate starts heating up. Republican candidates will be forced so far to the right by the tea-baggers they will be tripping over themselves to see who can be the toughest on immigrants, legal and illegal.
I just hope Dems don’t cower on immigration reform. If they do, they deserve to lose the Hispanic vote. You can be sure there will be huge amounts of pressure from tea-baggers. Nothing gets them more riled up more than the idea of illegals taking their jobs. I mean, who cares that most of their ancestors came over here by the boatload and spread out in the land grabs of the early days.
Another old man yelling at clouds?
Woo Hoo! Split that Repug vote, Lou.
Lou Dobbs is SO INSPIRING!
I can’t even……… *sigh*
“I do know this,” Thompson continued….
??
Shouldn’t that be a Dobbs quote?
my wife’s gonna be making a good part of that decision
Remember “Obama Waffles”? Dobbs’ response upon seeing those was, “My wife will love this.”
Remember “Obama Waffles”? Dobbs’ reponse upon seeing them was, “My wife will love this.”
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(Ah. I assumed the first comment of the pair wasn’t going to make it because this blog sometimes nixes my comments when there are links it doesn’t like.)
I remember Wolf Blitzer interviewing Dobbs about a possible White House run in 2008. Anyone think he can take down Obama in 2012? Maybe he and Rudy G. can run on the same ticket. Dobbs/Giuliani 2012?
Gasman, the drubbing that Rudy-boy got didn’t seem to inflict much humility on him. Is there any reason beyond vain hope that a drubbing will do much to improve Dobbs?
And about immigration, there were Latinos in the US southwest before there were Englishmen in New England. So now who are the immigrants?
Texas Aggie,
I think Dobbs would be surprise how few votes he would get. Rudy has had political success, while Dobbs has not. Dobbs has way too much baggage. He would be savaged by those in his own party who would see him as a large, slow moving, very vulnerable target.
These folks are unprincipled and when they start the feeding frenzy prior to the primaries, it will be a bloodbath. I think a big, puffy, bloated political novice like Dobbs would not fare too well.
I can hardly wait.