Yesterday, John Fund wrote in the Wall Street Journal that CNN shouter Lou Dobbs is considering a presidential run in 2008. The punditcracy is warming to the idea of Dobbs as a newfangled Ross Perot. Writing for the Atlantic, Ross Douthat noted the “a Lou Dobbs candidacy, particularly in a four-way race, makes a lot more sense.”
In August 2004, I profiled Dobbs in the New York Observer as he was inaugurating his angry populist makeover. “We are desperate in this country for a countervailing power to that of corporate America politically,” Dobbs told me then. “If you’re not willing to protect the American middle class in the values that make the American dream possible, you’re not going to get my vote. And I don’t care what your party says.”
Perhaps Dobbs has decided that it’s time to run instead of vote. (more…)
