Should a man who once threatened to bomb Mecca be considered a serious candidate for POTUS?
It all started with the Tancredo-Rove feud. In April 2002, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo received a phone call from Karl Rove. Tancredo had just authored an op-ed for the Washington Times that completely excoriated President George W. Bush’s immigration policy. At the end of a twenty-minute rant, Tancredo alleges that Rove ended the conservation with the old, ‘You will never darken the steps of the White House again’ threat.…
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26 - Nancy
I won't make any judgements about Tancredo ... yet ...but dead on about Rove, & those who employ/associate with him; dog turds are better than Rove & his ethos.
27 - Clavos
Tancredo probably won't get too many votes in Florida...
28 - lono
so colorado is filled with racists?
Well, I don't want to make any WAGs, especially without data, but they keep electing him.
> Tancredo is only being elected because he is a Republican, seriously. If the GOP ran a fetid turd against Jesus himself... my district would vote for the fetid turd.
Tancredo wasn't even a good candidate. He spent the entire election season working on his bid for President. Somehow, our district didn't care and narrowly voted him back in.
29 - Hal K
You said yourself that the link to Nazism was tenuous. I am starting to think that a large percentage of the people in this country are in need of deprogramming. If a major environmental organization refuses to accept the negative effect of unrestricted immigration on the environment then one has to conclude that something is amiss mentally, unless of course one has been brainwashed into ignoring this contradiction.
30 - James K. Bickley
"Mr. P.C.", Karl Rove thinks he's the Mark Hanna of the Twenty First Century or possibly Cardinal Richelieu. President Bush has won elections in spite of Karl Rove, and not because of him. I am now hoping that George W. will start listening to the "Heartland" which got him elected and which Rep. Tom Tancredo represents.
31 - Clavos
Tancredo showed his true racist colors a few weeks ago in Palm Beach.
If he represents "The Heartland", which I doubt, then we've made NO progress at all since 1964.
32 - Nancy
Karl Rove is under the mistaken impression that he himself is a member of the human race instead of a walking, talking turd. He's certainly no character reference - part of why I despise Bush: you are known by the company you keep, & he sticks with Rove, which indicates to me that Bush is just as dirty & low.
33 - Dave / NM
Mr. Reidhead: If Tancredo terrifies you, perhaps you should switch your party affiliation.
AMNESTY BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL AMNESTY
34 - G. Chell
Tancredo passed the racist test when he voted against the minimium wage increase. He said that the main reason he opposes immigration is because the poor American worker gets screwed by low wages. Guess what..he is not for the poor American worker. He also says that he is not for abortion. Gues what among his top three donors is the pro-abortion anti-life Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR)..Tancredo is a Racist unlike Thelma Drake, Robert Goodlate, Brad Ellsworth and others who are pro-American worker. The sooner we realize this the better!!
35 - G. Chell
AMNESTY BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL AMNESTY
RACIST BY ANY OTHER NAME IS A RACIST...TANCREDO IS A RACIST!!
36 - G. Chell
Had he supported a minimum wage, I would have bought his anti-immigration argument as pro-American worker..Tancredo is no populist..plain old fashioned RACIST.
37 - Quint
I have not been to Miami in years. I live in Los Angeles. Huge areas of Los Angeles look like a 3rd world nation. Meaning, they have massive 3rd world poverty. Not just a few blocks, mile after mile are nothing but 3rd world poverty. Nothing racist about the comment. Los Angeles has encouraged illegal immigrants from 3rd world nations to settle here. Just a fact. I've been to some of the poorest nations in the world (3rd world nations) and mile after mile of Los Angeles looks like a 3rd world nation. What is racist about that statement?
38 - George
Tancredo has my vote.
Period.
39 - Daves
The usual tired Presidential candidates will line up, with their pockets full of the corporate CARTELS money. These politicians will spill their guts in the limelight of the TV cameras and place giant ads in the national newspapers. Many voters will believe their lies and spin on behalf of their wealthy sponsors.
America is ready for a Tom Tancredo (CO) as he is a man of THE PEOPLE. He does not dance on strings, manipulated by the corporate CARTELS as a profit puppet. He has already seen through the obnoxious (NAU) North American Union, evoke by a traitorous dog called Bush. His no longer secret agenda has slithered through our government channels, without even a murmur. This treaty to tread American sovereignty into the mud, was concocted in Banff, Canada in 2002, with co-conspirators of Canada’s previous Prime Minister Martin, the corrupt Southern neighbor of Mexico and the guy that I actually voted for. The first step was to swamp America with cheap, foreign labor to undermine American citizen’s wages, followed by the ramshackle convoys of poorly maintained Mexican trucks. Please don’t take my word for it, check for yourself. Start with the anti-ACLU (American Civil liberties Union"Called Judea Watch. GO here: www.judicialwatch.org. They are an All- American reputable organization against government corruption. More on the terrible ( NAU).
Remember this nightmare will merge our three countries together and will mean the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and our flag. This is an opiate dream of the wealthy elites, European banks and establishments like Wal-Mart and American Express. This is REAL! Already 17 State Congressional legislators have voted against any of this travesty of our laws. We THE PEOPLE haven’t approved it, nor has there been any Congressional oversight. The National media has been suppressed about it. But Tom Tancredo and Rep.Ron Paul no it exists. Small newspapers are aware and so are the nationwide blogs
GO! Research and find the TRUTH!
40 - Daniel
Tancredo is the real deal! All the rest are tools, how can anyone not see this?
41 - Joe Molloy
Enviromentalists, population control freaks, anti-market, abortions mills, Catholic-bashing freaks. All of this DIRECTLY connected to the little Italian dark-type character Signore Tancredo. He does not look very "Conservative" to me, does he? Traditional conservativism is Roman Catholic, anti-French revolution, pro-Western civilization, individualist and capitalist. Not nativist redneckishm big-brother-controls-all. Thus, he is not conservative. Viva el Brownback!