Lou Dobbs is too "pro-immigrant" for the foaming-at-the-mouth Mad Dog Right

[marmar]

:wtf: Another illustration of how rabid the right has become.



from AlterNet:



Conservative Group Expels Lou Dobbs for Loving Illegal Immigrants Too Much

Posted by Tana Ganeva, AlterNet at 2:43 PM on December 3, 2009.

Poor Lou. No one ever said fulfilling your crass political ambitions would be easy.





Illegal-immigrant lover Lou Dobbs is no longer intolerant enough for the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, a group that used to think it'd be so awesome if Dobbs were President that they raised $660,000 in pledges to fund his run for office. ALIPAC is mad because the former CNN anchor said he endorsed legalizing undocumented immigrants -- a policy he's previously trashed as "shamnesty" -- in an interview with Telemundo two weeks ago.

"Our internal polling shows that over 70% of our supporters are upset with Mr. Dobbs's comments on Telemundo is support of legalizing illegal aliens. ALIPAC opposes any path to citizenship form of Amnesty for illegal aliens currently in the US," said William Gheen of ALIPAC. "Therefore we are dropping our support for Lou Dobbs and suspending the fan sites we have created."

That includes: Lou Dobbs for President.org, a website previously used to pull funding for Dobbs' Presidential ambitions, which now sports the same shaming press release featured on the AILPAC site; and the Draft Lou Dobbs for President or Senate Facebook page, where former fans can grieve the latest betrayal of regular hard-working Americans. Here are a few:

........

From Peter Baars Bultman: "That interview was pretty clear. Lou Dobbs supports amnesty. What a shocking disappointment. All the real American heroes are dead."



Lisa Flood: "grow some- you lost me Lou."
"I am defreinding (sic) Lou Dobbs. Will no longer support. Want to bet he will soon jump on the band wagon of calling us racists. hahahahahaha What a fake!" writes Tim Bull Sr.

......



Feeding your crass ambition isn't easy Lou! But sadly for Dobbs, selling out the fringe may not be his best bet. As Josh pointed out in a post following Dobbs' interview with Telemundo, his political calculations -- likely tied to a New Jersey Senate run -- are pretty likely to alienate his most fervent fans without resulting in measurable gains among non-crazy people:

That straight-talking right-populism has always been his appeal, and Dobbs' most ardent supporters lapped it up. What a sad joke it is -- sold out by their most passionate and visible champion. And how insulting it is to those fans that Dobbs even thinks he can hold onto their devotion and also try to soften his image with Latinos by going jiggly on the very issue on which his' hard-line stance has long defined him.

He won't be able to do it. Dobbs' problem is one shared by anyone who goes too far with the anti-immigration rhetoric and then seeks public office -- it reliably pleases the base and loses general elections (PDF). Dobbs' rants averaged 650,000 viewers out of a nation of more than 300 million; to grab a Senate seat he needs over half of New Jersey's 3.6 million voters.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144355/conservative_group_expels_lou_dobbs_for_loving_illegal_immigrants_too_much/