Lou Dobbs in 2012?

By Jason Wright, Editor

Filed Under Race for White House 2012 on Nov 24 

I’m surprised this hasn’t hit the PD front page until now.

Lou Dobbs weighing White House run in 2012

Can Lou Dobbs make the leap from the anchor desk to the Oval Office?

(CNN) – Can Lou Dobbs make the leap from the anchor desk to the Oval Office?

A radio interviewer on WTOP joked Monday about the “crazy” idea that the former CNN host could mount a White House bid in 2012 – but Dobbs wasn’t laughing. “What’s so crazy about that?” he responded in the interview broadcast on the Washington, D.C. station.

“Well, I’ll tell you this much: it’s one of the discussions that we’re having,” Dobbs said. “For the first time, I’m actually listening to some people about politics.”

Dobbs, who amicably parted ways with the network earlier this month, also told former Sen. Fred Thompson that he was definitely weighing a run.

Comments

11 Comments

  1. Gil Rice on 24.11.2009 at 18:56 (Reply)

    If Oba-wan can go from Wright’s church and Ayers kitchen table, almost anything is possible

  2. Brian H on 24.11.2009 at 21:16 (Reply)

    USS GOP

    Self-destruct sequence initiated, Captain.

  3. Whodat on 24.11.2009 at 22:29 (Reply)

    Sometimes I drink too much, too.
    So, things I say and think of then
    Sound better and better as night
    Wears on. Then, reality sets in!

    Usually, with the morning sun, I
    Start to collect and to reconcile
    All that I did and said last night,
    Dat bizarre often makes me smile.

    But, almost always, even I declare,
    “What a stupid idea, I said what?
    What was I drinking,Smoking?Please
    Tell no one. Keep it quiet, a lot!

    So, Lou seems smitten wif hisself
    And, what he might come to be;
    That he could single-handedly save
    Ol USA, having rode in from TV!

    Never mind his show and he never
    Even made the Top 10 on CABLE!
    He obviously gets better drugs than
    Others get,so he believes his fable

    Whodat might run for president, too, cause I already know I could be better than the fool we got now!
    Call BR-549 to pledge yo contributions

    1. Eric on 24.11.2009 at 22:53 (Reply)

      BR-549! Whodat, you’re too honest to be on the other end of that line.

  4. Red State Eddio on 24.11.2009 at 23:23 (Reply)

    I threw it out at the Viewers Choice Rankings back on the 11th, but nobody picked up on it.

    http://politicalderby.com/2009/11/11/the-viewers-choice-power-rankings/

    Not saying it may be the best card in the deck, but it certainly makes things fun!

    1. Whodat on 25.11.2009 at 07:11 (Reply)

      Me thinks the operative phrase in your post is

      “but nobody picked up on it.”

      Lou will probably come to the same realization, but it will take a few weeks…

      Cause, me thinks, O-bomb had a base to build on: all the blacks in America, plus some whites who just think its cool to be for a black – pretty much half of Iowa for starters… Then he got dat mo-jo workin’…

      But, Lou’s base is his old CNN audience and both of those guys are shifty…

      1. Gary Russell on 25.11.2009 at 17:16 (Reply)

        Latest news has Lou Dobbs eyeing a run for the U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey, currently held by a Hispanic Democrat.

        Might run as a Rep or a Ind.

        THAT should be interesting!

        Also, NFL player Jon Runyan is planning to run for the House in NJ against a 1st term Dem in a traditionally Rep district.

        I’m starting to like NJ more every day. Might even move there – NOT.

  5. Gary Russell on 25.11.2009 at 16:42 (Reply)

    “his old CNN audience” … “and both of those guys…”

    Love it.

    I’d be the first to nominate Lou Dobbs for Director of Homeland Security !!

  6. kristen on 25.11.2009 at 22:20 (Reply)

    Hey, you didn’t tell us you were going to be on Glenn Beck today. ;-) Nice job!

    1. Brian H on 25.11.2009 at 23:25 (Reply)

      Yeah. Very cool. We live in the age of Obama, self promotion is not only acceptable but is fashionable.

      1. Brian H on 25.11.2009 at 23:27 (Reply)

        Sounds like a great project to do at my school as well. Thanks, Jason.

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