Carville and Rahm urge Dems to push fear of immigration.

This just makes me so angry I see all kinds of colors. This is just so wrong, and they know it. They will do anything to win.

First James Carville, or Mr. Matalin, as I often call him. I found this today about a strategy paper he wrote in December.

Outdoing each other to appear tough on immigration

The issue is also causing trouble for the Democrats. Hillary Clinton’s biggest wobble so far came when she appeared to "flip-flop" on a plan by Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York to grant driving licences to illegal immigrants. A December 2007 strategy paper by James Carville, architect of Bill Clinton’s two victories in the 1990s, urges Democratic candidates to show voters that they appreciate the importance of the immigration issue and convey an understanding that “illegal immigration is out of control.”

Hmm...mmm.. I remember someone else who said about the same thing. Rahm Emanuel, tough guy.

Rahm tells Dems to move right to win

A quote from Firedoglake.

Two weeks ago he sent a DCCC-connected candidate training a video of himself haranguing congressional candidates to “move right” on immigration or risk defeat at the hands of Republicans. This is similar to the terrible advice he shoved down candidates’ throats last year, although then he was demanding they move to the right on Iraq, dooming the candidacies of Lois Murphy, Francine Busby, Ken Lucas, Tammy Duckworth, Diane Farrell and several others who went along with his demands. Yesterday Markos asked a blaring question at DailyKos: Is Rahm racist, or merely scared?. While walking the picket line at the WGA strike at Fox today Jane and I came up with the idea of inviting Emanuel over to FDL to ask him why he thinks adopting Tom Tancredo’s immigration ideas is a good idea and why he’s unleashed Heath Shuler to do just that.

There you go. That is why Heath Shuler's picture and plan are featured front page on Tancredo's website

That is the exact opposite of what Howard Dean has been doing. He has been urging people to ease up on the hate rhetoric concerning immigrants. Here he is meeting with Hispanic ministers and others who feel as he does, that the hate talk is overboard.

Howard Dean, Rev. Luis Cortes join to ask GOP to tone down immigration rhetoric.

Also today, Democrats scored a coup when a powerful Latino clergyman joined with party chairman Howard Dean to denounce the Republicans' harsh rhetoric on illegal immigration.

The Rev. Luis Cortes, a political independent who founded the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and a visible ally of President Bush's re-election campaign in 2004, joined Dean on a conference call with reporters, including the Times Peter Wallsten, to lambaste the GOP's presidential candidates. Cortes predicted that many evangelical Latinos who backed Bush in 2004 are likely to abandon the GOP in 2008.

Carville and Rahm are both working against that goal.

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