If a only a few million select people kick the bucket, I'm the future king of England.

Sheesh, reasoning like that gives new meaning to the word specious.

If it gets him off my TV, I'm all for his running.

John Edwards is already running as the angry (but telegenic) populist. Duncan Hunter is already running as Mr. Anti-Immigration. What does Lou Dobbs bring to the table?

Please. Dobbs is trying to boost his ratings and sell his new book Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit. Says Dobbs, "I believe the person elected a year from now will be an Independent populist." You can't really believe that. You might hope for it, but you'd be a fool for believing it.

I was greatly relieved to see the negative reactions here to Dobbs. If he did somehow get himself elected, I really would move to Warsaw and open a Texas barbecue joint.

Dobbs is a one-trick-pony, and the pony's lame.

Yes, there are populists, but not populists for the "stupid-and-angry" voter. That's Dobb's base.

...after having read his latest commentary on CNN.com.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/06/Dobbs.Nov7/index.html

It ends with with him saying,

I believe that independent Americans will demand a far better choice than any of the candidates now seeking their party's nomination. I believe next November's surprise will be the election of a man or woman of great character, vision and accomplishment, a candidate who has not yet entered the race.

I just wasn't sure who he thought this extraordinary person of vision was going to be, but that commentary can very easily be read as a pre-campaign statement.

He said none of the candidates running would be the next President, and that someone would emerge and win the election. When King asked who that could be, he demurred appropriately.

This campaign is already kind of a freak show. If he jumps in it would start to look like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World.

It's FOUR "mads." But kudos for the great movie reference.

Shouldn't someone tell him that Tancredo is running; and has already released his first ad showing just how scary brown people are? Lou Dobbs is a wannabe, by comparison.

There are lots of potential methods for categorizing politics, but a seperate social axis and an economic axis is a huge step forward from one monolithic axis. It's silly to categorize a candidate like Mike Huckabee as more conservative than Gulianni, when Mike Huckabee doesn't seem to believe in trickle-down economics.

Bloomberg thinks there are gains to be made by running on an economically conservative but socially liberal platform. This seems very unlikely to me -- since Bill Clinton the Democrats have largely played this role, but even if they didn't this is a position most popular with people who are rich and secular.

On the other hand, I think there's a lot of potential for an economically liberal but socially conservative party. "Stop sending our jobs to Mexico and stop letting the Mexicans come here." "Make the rich pay their fair share and 'protect our families' from homosexuals." "Let people form unions, but don't let them speak Spanish." It seems like good politics -- though not good policy -- to try to appeal to low- and middle-income white Christians (and Christianists.)

First thing, how you tell if someone is a racist? They swear up and down, constantly, that they are not a racist.

So he's a racist. He likes to let others point to the fact that he is married to Debi Segura, a Hispanic, as being unassailable evidence that he is not a racist. But in fact, there are racists in every race, there are racists in every skin color and there are people of mixed races who are both racists. Racism is ignorance and ignorance knows no boundary.

Now for the asshole part:

Lou Dobbs is executive producer of his own show. He can assign CNN reporters to go out and cover stories for him that already conclude his position. Then, when the reporter is finished, they don't get to leave the air. They have to stand there and take loaded questions from Dobbs and he expects them to answer the way he wants while nodding in agreement, as Dobbs launches into one of his tirades that usually begin with his face contorting, his head cocked almost sideways in mock disbelief and him saying, "I'm flabbergasted! I mean, the very idea of ... blah blah blah."

It's particularly disgusting to see Suzanne Malveaux, an American of African-American, Spanish and Hispanic descent, who graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in sociology, a very smart person, have to stand there silently while this idiot Dobbs goes into his predictable harangue about how these Mexicans aren't here for anything more than to suck the riches of America out of the country, or they won't assimilate, or they come bearing disease, or they commit terrible crimes, they drag our economy down, on and on and on.

Race baiting. That's all it is.

Dobbs, you are a racist asshole.

Lou Dobbs, in story after story after story after story after story, has made a profession on attacking illegal immigration, but I always have the impression that he's really promulgating the same ideas as Pat Buchanan did in his book, State of Emergency, in which Pitchfork Pat pushes the centrality of race to the United States and its culture.

Dobbs is less obvious than Buchanan is in his racism, but he's still a racist, IMO.

In his own words on CNN:

Dobbs: "I support the Minuteman Project and the fine Americans who make it up in all they've accomplished, fully, relentlessly, and proudly."

I sure hope this bloated bag of wind runs for president. That will get him off the airwaves, finally. After he loses maybe CNN will have the common sense to retire him for good.

Maybe Glenn Beck can be his running mate!

Then they both can get the f*ck of off MS tv. Either that or they can go where they both belong-- to FauxNews.