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Dobbs Does Perot

by West Virginia Rebel

As if there aren’t enough douchebags running already.

Lou Dobbs for President? Don’t laugh. After months of telling reporters that he “absolutely” would not consider leaving his highly-rated CNN show in which he crusades against free trade and illegal immigration, Mr. Dobbs posted a commentary on his Web site last week predicting a surprise new presidential candidate in 2008. The mystery candidate is an “independent populist...who understands the genius of this country lies in the hearts and minds of its people and and not in the perogatives and powers of its elites.”

Friends of Mr. Dobbs say he is seriously contemplating a race for the first time, although it’s still unlikely. They spin a scenario under which the acerbic commentator would parachute into the race if Michael Bloomberg, the New York billionaire and favorite of East Coast elites, enters the field as an independent. With Hillary Clinton continuing to score badly in the polls in the categories of honesty and integrity, and with the public’s many doubts about Rudy Giuliani and other GOP contenders, Mr. Bloomberg may well see an opportunity to roil the political waters by entering the race late. If so, Mr. Dobbs then sees a niche for a “fourth-party” candidate who could paint the three other contenders as completely out of touch.

His playbook would be similar to that of Ross Perot in 1992, who didn’t enter the presidential race until the major parties began holding their primaries but quikcly shot up to 25% in many polls.

Considering the fact that we already have two candidates-Ron Paul and Barack Obama-who are quite capable of shaking up the race on their own, I don’t see why Lou feels the need to run except satisfy his ego. After all, both parties already have enough fringe nuts to go around. Maybe Tom Tancredo could use a speechwriter…

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