Lou Dobbs may hope that he can get Latinos to forget about the past few years of his CNN show, and the myths about Latino immigrants in which he trafficked. (Doing so, after all, would probably be a necessary step if he does want to mount even a semi-serious run for office.) But the people who liked what he was saying back then aren’t going to forget — in fact, they’re pretty upset about Dobbs trying to rewrite history.

Dobbs has even managed to turn off the man who was once his biggest supporter. William Gheen, the president of Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), has devoted quite a bit of energy in recent years to trying to persuade Dobbs to run for president; he even set up a Web site about the cause. But in a press release sent out Thursday morning, ALIPAC announced that it’s “withdrawing support” for the former CNN anchor.

From the release:

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is withdrawing support for Lou Dobbs after years, including the suspension of websites calling on Dobbs to run for President due to the perceived change in Mr. Dobbs’s stances on immigration issues.

“While Mr. Dobbs claims his positions have not changed, however, that is not the perception of many of our mutual supporters,” said William Gheen of ALIPAC. “His recent comments on Telemundo and his national radio show supporting some kind of path to citizenship for illegal immigrants is inconsistent with positions of ALIPAC and the views of most American citizens.” ….

ALIPAC is suspending the operations of two Dobbs fan websites. The Facebook “Draft Lou Dobbs for President or US Senate” and the fan site www.LouDobbsForPresident.org will suspend operations and have a notice of ALIPAC’s discontinued support placed upon them. The site www.LouDobbsForPresident.org was launched back in early 2008 and has generated pledges of over $660,000 in contributions if Lou Dobbs were to run for office.

“We’ve received so many demands from prior Dobbs supporters to remove their pledges of support that we have to suspend all operations on the Dobbs fan sites,” said Gheen. “Lou Dobbs has deeply offended his base of supporters and ALIPAC is going to remain loyal to those Americans who support our existing immigration laws instead of Amnesty disguised as reform.”

CNBC isn’t denying that it’s talked with former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs recently. But it’s pretty clear those talks aren’t going anywhere.

After the New York Times reported on the meetings, a CNBC spokesman told the Times’ Brian Stelter, “We are not in talks or negotiating with Lou Dobbs. He is not going to work for CNBC.”

Granted, that could mean Dobbs was the one who rejected CNBC, and not the other way around. As Stelter notes, though, Dobbs is “said to be keen on having a new television platform,” and there doesn’t seem to be a bidding war for his services.

Of course, there’s always the White House.

Update: Dobbs has denied he talked with anyone from CNBC.

Retirement can be fun, but somebody like Lou Dobbs needs something to do — he’s got to pass the time until he’s swept into the White House on the shoulders of every right-thinking American, after all. So far, though, there’s been no hint that another network had anything to do with Dobbs’ abrupt exit from his job as an anchor at CNN. There were rumors that he was headed to Fox News or its sister Fox Business Network, of course, but those haven’t come to fruition.

Come on, people: Did you really think Lou Dobbs was going to run for president immediately after quitting CNN? I mean, he’d have to have a super-inflated ego and be immensely self-righteous to do that, right? So don’t worry: Dobbs might just run for the Senate — then he’ll run for president.

At least, that’s the latest from the New York Times, which has been hearing talk that Dobbs is considering a challenge to Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. A spokesman for the former anchor told the paper, referencing the possibility of a presidential run, “I think Lou is realistically saying, that’s a long way off, but if he did run for office there’d have to be an intermediary step, such as the Menendez seat.”

Back when Lou Dobbs announced that he’d decided to quit his post as a CNN anchor, there was plenty of talk going on about why, exactly, he’d made the move. In an article he wrote for Salon, Joe Conason appears to have hit part of the reason, at least, square on the nose. Shortly after Dobbs’ announcement, Conason wrote: ”Having observed the former CNN anchor for many years, including a number of recent appearances on his nightly broadcast, I suspect that he may well nurture ambitions to run for president.”

When former CNN host Lou Dobbs stopped by Bill O’Reilly’s show Monday night, the two had a lot of weighty questions to discuss: What’s next for Dobbs? Is he going back to television, or perhaps into politics? Between the two of us, who’s more pompous and self-righteous?

OK, that last one is a joke. But O’Reilly really did ask Dobbs this: “Final question: Barack Obama — is he the devil?”

“He’s not the devil,” Dobbs answered, presumably to the relieved sighs of millions of viewers. “But he is certainly a man who is right now not making it easy to understand why he’s making the public policy choices that he is.”