That’s the catchy title of a posting by David French over at Phi Beta Cons that isn’t about immigration and yet sums up the strategy of the pro-amnesty side. They’re just running out of arguments that people find plausible and have resorted instead to pointing and sputtering at how awful and appalling the immigration critics are. As David put it in his posting, “Why convince when you can browbeat?”

This is the sum total of the recent SPLC/La Raza amnesty blitzkrieg, and just yesterday, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights joined in, with a report intended to boost passage of a new hate-crimes bill. Stupid as that is (every crime is a hate crime, after all), what got my attention was the report’s focus on immigration; on the very first page of the report, my shop, the Center for Immigration Studies, is accused of having “inflamed the immigration debate by invoking the dehumanizing, racist stereotypes and bigotry of hate groups.” Translation: I haven’t toed their line on amnesty and open borders, and therefore I’m a baaaaaad person.