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Lou Dobbs Weighs Senate Run, as a Steppingstone
NY Times ^ | November 25, 2009 | DAVID M. HALBFINGER

Posted on 11/26/2009 6:51:30 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 11/26/2009 6:51:30 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Really hard to trust people who flip flop.


2 posted on 11/26/2009 6:52:58 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: neverdem
Uh oh...it appears the NYT has laid off its speller in chief.

Steppingstone is not a word...however "stepping stone" or even "stepping-stone" is.

Maybe they were thinking of Steppenwolf. Now there's a word with an interesting history!

3 posted on 11/26/2009 6:58:58 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: neverdem

....methinks Lou waaaay overestimates his popularity...and he waaay underestimates how much rough and tumble there is in a political campaign...it’s one thing to pontificate from behind a broadcast desk...quite another to be a gut fighter on the campaign trail.


4 posted on 11/26/2009 6:59:38 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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You can’t gey much worse than Menendez.

Other than being against illegal aliens and for more fair than free trade, Dobbs usually struck me as a Ross Perot type. Does anyone know anything else about him?


5 posted on 11/26/2009 7:01:31 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: STONEWALLS

just what we need another bloody idiot stateist in the senate.


6 posted on 11/26/2009 7:07:07 PM PST by genghis
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To: neverdem
he had been urged to ponder a White House run

Who urged him - CNN? The real reason for the 'let go'?
7 posted on 11/26/2009 7:07:35 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: neverdem; AuntB

I don’t know a great deal about Lou Dobbs, other than what he’s spoken of on television. I applaud his positions on trade and illegal aliens, but am unsure as to how well they will play in New Jersey.


8 posted on 11/26/2009 7:08:39 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: neverdem

Just illustrates why our system is so poisoned with ineptitude. Senator is now regarded as an entry level position. Maybe Lou should try out for a county superviser or PTA president first.


9 posted on 11/26/2009 7:14:45 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: neverdem

Who the hell is Lou Dobbs?


10 posted on 11/26/2009 7:26:31 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: neverdem

Dobbs is such a Joke.


11 posted on 11/26/2009 7:35:12 PM PST by Diggity
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To: SpaceBar

Good point. While he’s got a BS in Economics from Harvard, he’s spent his whole career working in radio and television. He’s never run anything, or run FOR anything. Be interesting to see what those who feel Sarah Palin’s executive experience was inadequate have to say about Dobbs complete lack thereof.


12 posted on 11/26/2009 7:38:50 PM PST by bigbob
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To: neverdem
'Other than being against illegal aliens and for more fair than free trade, Dobbs usually struck me as a Ross Perot type. Does anyone know anything else about him?'

Yeah. He was against amnesty before he resigned and decided to toy with a political seat, then suddenly he was for it.

'Nuff said.


13 posted on 11/26/2009 7:41:19 PM PST by Viking2002
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To: Clintonfatigued

I understand Dobbs is now for amnesty flip flop


14 posted on 11/26/2009 7:41:44 PM PST by paul revere is riding
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To: STONEWALLS

Exactly, being a host of a tv show takes one set of skills. Running a winning statewide campaign takes another set of skills. A few may overlap, but they are just different tasks.

BTW, this is part of the reason a woman like Sarah Palin can help conservatives best as an elected official and will leave talk shows to Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, etc where our bench is quite deep.


15 posted on 11/26/2009 7:41:56 PM PST by JLS
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To: neverdem

I respected Dobbs when he defended Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, but he does flip-flop a lot on the issues and I would never vote for him for anything. He should have kept his day job.


16 posted on 11/26/2009 7:42:13 PM PST by samtheman
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“Running a winning statewide campaign takes another set of skills.”

...Amen!....and the first set of skills he will have to master is fund raising....Senate campaigns are multi-million dollar efforts....raising millions is a far cry from getting paid millions as a celebrity broadcaster.


17 posted on 11/26/2009 7:46:25 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: SpaceBar

I agree. Nothing like starting at the top because it’s ‘them’. Hillary - she had a law degree and lived in the WH. Carpetbags to NY to become senator by forcing Moynihan out - although it’s said he declined to run for re-election in 2000.


18 posted on 11/26/2009 7:47:30 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Caipirabob

“Who the hell is Lou Dobbs?”

Ross Perot.


19 posted on 11/26/2009 7:48:24 PM PST by JHBowden (Keep the Change!)
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To: bigbob

Senate is not an executive position.


20 posted on 11/26/2009 8:02:13 PM PST by byteback
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