Thread: ALIPAC drops Lou Dobbs

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Lou Dobbs change to benefit Illegals

A radio interviewer on WTOP joked Monday about the "crazy" idea that the former CNN host could mount a White House bid in 2012 - but Dobbs wasn't laughing. "What's so crazy about that?" he responded in the interview broadcast on the Washington, D.C. station.

"Well, I'll tell you this much: it's one of the discussions that we're having," Dobbs said. "For the first time, I'm actually listening to some people about politics."

Dobbs, who amicably parted ways with the network earlier this month, also told former Sen. Fred Thompson that he was definitely weighing a run.

Egad, the anti-immigration folks must be in heaven! President Lou Dobbs? Imagine how high that wall on the Mexican border is going to be.

But not so fast... it seems Lou has realized that constantly banging on about the brown threat may work wonders for your career in talk radio, but it's not so useful when you actually need the brown threat to turn out and vote for you.

Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, pondering a future in politics, is trying to wipe away his image as an enemy of Latino immigrants by positioning himself as a champion of that fast-growing ethnic bloc.

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In a little-noticed interview Friday, Mr. Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers, a stance he long lambasted as an unfair "amnesty."

"Whatever you have thought of me in the past, I can tell you right now that I am one of your greatest friends and I mean for us to work together," he said in a live interview with Telemundo's Maria Celeste.

Well, that's a refreshing change. Unfortunately for Lou, his attempt to pivot from "angry guy on TV who hates Hispanics" to "friendly populist who just wants us all to get along" isn't sitting too well with the very people who wanted him to run for president in the first place.

According to AlterNet:

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 ALIPAC 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.

Congratulations Lou - ten minutes into your presidential campaign and you've already lost the only people who were going to vote for you.
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http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/378

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... in-2012-2/

I am just in a total shock, about the crap Lou dobbs has pulled.....

If Lou tries to run for President, the opposition will eat him alive with his waffling ways. You can't claim to be one way for many years, then all of a sudden change your mind overnight. Both sides will see right through that. Now, he may have stood a chance had he continued to keep an anti illegal immigration stance after leaving CNN. Now, neither side trusts him. He's no better than all the other riff raff we've had running for office. Good going, Lou. You've sunk to your lowest point.