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Opinion: Ticket Replay: So do you think Lou Dobbs will get the Hispanic vote in 2012?

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As the holiday season arrives, our thoughts on The Ticket turn to working not quite so hard for a few days. So we are re-publishing some of our favorite or most-read items from 2009. This item originally appeared on Nov. 23.

President Lou Dobbs.

Has a nice ring to it, right?

Well, he’s starting to think so. Word out of New York this afternoon that LD is pondering a run for the White House.

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The 64-year-old award-winning former radio/TV host, the son of a Texas propane dealer (no gasbag jokes, please), was asked on a radio interview today about this ‘crazy idea’ floating around of him seeking the presidency of these United States.

His response: ‘What’s so crazy about that? Golly!’ (Except he really said golly.)

He elaborated slightly:

‘Well, I’ll tell you this much -- it’s one of the discussions that we’re having. For the first time, I’m actually listening to some people about politics. I don’t think I’ve got the nature for it. [But] we’ve got to do something in this country, and I think that being in the public arena means you’ve got to be part of the solution.

The controversial Harvard-educated CNN commentator, who was particularly outspoken on this cockamamie idea that the United States has some kind of illegal alien problem, abruptly resigned on-air Nov. 11. Protest groups claimed they had him pushed out.

But Lou cited his growing concern over the nation’s expanding problems and the need to address them beyond his cable commentator’s role. (See video below for his complete resignation remarks.)

Now, it’s taken the self-described ‘independent populist’ 12 whole days to....

broach the idea of running for the White House, good news for any incumbent since Dobbs and you-name-all-the-others can divvy up the voters unhappy with him.

It is, of course, a preposterous idea that someone never elected to anything except high school student body president in rural Texas could win the nation’s top elected job on the backs of angry voters who believe the incumbent is incompetent.

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Next thing you know, people will be suggesting that some old movie actor from California, who switched parties and peddled refrigerators on black-and-white TV, could run against a Democratic president elected after eight years of Republican controversy and scandal. And then the Republican actor could be elected president -- twice.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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