Thursday, November 26, 2009

Looking ahead to 2012: Dobbs, Beck, and Palin


Two quick notes:

-- I'm all for Lou Dobbs running in 2012. As Rasmussen finds, "early polling shows he could attract up to 14% of the vote." Not surprisingly, much of that is "almost certainly a generic protest vote." What is clear, though, is that Dobbs would take much more support away from any Republican nominee than from Obama.

-- I'm also all for a Beck-Palin (or Palin-Beck?) ticket. As Politico reports, she's not ruling out the possibility. She seems to want to run, or is at least considering it, while he has his "plan" for 100 years of anger, paranoia, and resentment, and I can think of no better act of self-destruction for conservatism than having Beck and Palin front and center on the right, preferably as insurgents challenging the GOP.

Alas, we probably won't get either Dobbs or Beck-Palin, but that's no reason to give up hope.

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