The Dobbs Candidacy is...

[JSojourner]

Go...

[CatoMinor]

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[Mint]

Well he's getting to work on pandering already :

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Obviously option 2.

[California8429]

trial balloon

and learning on wanting some attention.

But 14% already....could have a chance....at making sure Obama is re-elected

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

A joke.

Dobbs is a protectionist populist hack whose act has gotten stale.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Probably option three. As someone said once, any publicity is good publicity.

[Phony Moderate]

Basically Option Two.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Option 3, I hope.

[Lunar]

I mean, I have to assume it's a complete publicity stunt for a few reasons:
1- Did we ever hear about this before he was fired from CNN? 
2- There's no reason for Dobbs to NOT pretend like he's gonna do it.
3- While he may have an ideological niche as a more rhetorically effective anti-immigrant candidate, do Republicans even like him?

I could see a Dobbs victory, but it would take a very specific set of events for this ideological niche to even be created, let alone for him to win.  I don't think insurgent outsider campaigns do very well in Republican primaries, Dobbs would need some strong element of establishment support that I don't think he has.  The two elements of GOP power, the religious and big business, both will probably prefer a different pony.

[Mr. Morden]

I could see a Dobbs victory, but it would take a very specific set of events for this ideological niche to even be created, let alone for him to win.  I don't think insurgent outsider campaigns do very well in Republican primaries, Dobbs would need some strong element of establishment support that I don't think he has.  The two elements of GOP power, the religious and big business, both will probably prefer a different pony.

Dobbs would likely run as an Independent rather than a Republican.  A more nativist version of Ross Perot, except without any money.