After repeated attempts by various spokesmouths of the Donkey Party to brand the rascally Republicans and TeaPartiers as being anti-immigrant racists, they have recently discovered that maybe the opposition has a point after all:

Dems’ tough new immigration pitch

…top Democratic officials have concluded there’s only one way they can hope to pass a comprehensive immigration bill:

Talk more like Republicans.

They’re seizing on the work of top Democratic Party operatives who, after a legislative defeat in 2007, launched a multiyear polling project to craft an enforcement-first, law-and-order, limited-compassion pitch that now defines the party’s approach to the issue.

Excuse my skepticism. Just because they learn to talk the talk, means little or nothing based on their record of reluctance to walk the walk. IT behooves one and all to wait and see whether this is yet one morer instance of traditional liberal/progressive symbolism over substance.