CNN's Lou Dobbs is considering running for governor of New Jersey, according to the Newark Star Ledger.Now, immigration is an issue that strikes fear into the hearts of Democrats, despite the fact that I'm unaware of a single election turning on it. There's a small crowd of crazy right-wingers who feverishly talk about illegal immigration warping American culture and ramping up crime, in what is often little more than racism of a more socially acceptable form. Dobbs is one such. He and his ilk typify what's always been wrong about America instead of what's always been right--the hysteria, the fear of outsiders (all the way back to the Know-Nothings), the combination of racism with populism, and so on. America isn't like that--we've always welcomed hard-working outsiders with big dreams. The know-nothing equivalents today used to just have to sputter in the twilight, but now, thanks to "ultraliberal'' CNN, now one of them has achieved enough notoriety (and enough ignorant followers who actually believe that immigration hurts the economy) to perhaps seize a statehouse. At the very least he'll be a credible candidate who'll be able to spread his poison more expansively.
Thanks, CNN, for this and also for Glenn Beck. You suck.
