Honestly, the plants grow stronger every day.
That tactic is not limited to socialists and Liberal Democrats. Even within the GOP, some RINOs who support Bush regardless of the issue or the general negative impact on the country, will occaisionally vomit this venomous nonsense on Patriots. Shame on them.
A good fictional vignette to recall was from "Rising Sun", later made into a movie w/ Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. Some LA policemen were so afraid about going after underground Japanese yakuza crime or speaking up against unfair trading practices, because they would risk being called 'racist' by the LA Times and promoting an internal police investigation. Being called a racist for opposing crime.
It's an old outdated movie now, but the principles at work are the same.
By the way, folks, sorry for some of the typos above on the article. There are by the way more candid articles in Spanish which definitely show that while 245(i) is not EVERYTHING the illegals and their spokespeople want, they do support it as a positive movement forward. I think the editorial's title in Spanish said it all: "Buena noticia para latinos: Extencion de la 245(i)"