Welcome, Tancredo Supporters
By Josh Painter Posted in 2008 — Comments (0) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
When Tom Tancredo dropped out of the race and endorsed Mitt Romney, two of the key members of his Iowa team didn't follow suit. Bill Salier, who had been Tancredo's Iowa State Chairman, and Angie Anderson, who had served Tancredo as Iowa State Executive Director, both signed on with Team Fred and immediately began campaigning for Sen. Thompson.
Salier and Anderson may have the highest profiles of the former Tancredo supporters who are now working for Fred Thompson, but they aren't the only ones. Many others have followed the pair over to Fred's campaign from the Tancredo effort, from campaign volunteers to folks who just intend to vote for the clear conservative in the primaries.
The Admiral salutes Morgan, whose blogging activities include Hoosiers for Tancredo and his personal blog, My Two Cents Worth. I want to welcome Morgan and all Tancredo supporters to the effort to nominate and elect Fred Thompson president.
Some of us call ourselves "Fredheads," others (like me) like to be known as "Frederalists" and still others prefer "Frednecks." No matter what descriptive you prefer, we're all hard-core Fred Thompson supporters. Many of us were involved in the successful grassroots effort to draft Fred as a presidential candidate, and we firmly believe in the conservative and federalist principles the big guy stands for.
Rest assured that Fred Thompson will carry the banner for the same conservative principles to which Tom Tancredo has long been committed. A reading of Thompson's published plan to strengthen border security and reform immigration should have special appeal to those who were in Rep. Tancredo's camp. Fred is equally strong on other issues of concern to Tancredo conservatives, and he has demonstrated that he doesn't change his tune to pander to special interest groups or blocs of voters.
Speaking for my fellow friends of Fred, we're overjoyed to have you join us in this crucial and historic effort for Fred Thompson and conservative principles. Let's work together to make sure that it's a consistent conservative who is the nominee of the Republican Party in 2008 and who will defeat whatever liberal that the Democrats choose to throw out against him.
- JP