Tom Tancredo might seek reelection to Congress
Must finish in the top 2 in Iowa or New Hampshire, or Prez bid a bust
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Tom Tancredo rode to an interview with the Associated Press on his Harley and said, basically, that for him to compete in the Presidential nominating sweepstakes, people will have to give him money. If he doesn't finish in the top three in either Iowa or New Hampshire, he said, his adventure will be "pretty much over with."
Will he seek reelection to Congress after this Prez thing fizzles? He said that he would tell his constituents "the day after the (Colorado) Rockies play their last game," which might be as soon as next Tuesday. Then again, if the Rockies stay hot, they'll take care of Arizona, so we'll have to wait until after the World Series.
But we digress.
Tancredo said Bush and Republicans in Congress hurt themselves in last year's election by abandoning their principles by, for example, instituting federal school testing programs that intruded on local control and by promoting trade at the expense of cracking down on illegal immigration.
"You have a Republican Party that hasn't done a Republican thing," he said.
Is it possible that Tom Tancredo will run as the candidate of a new, anti-[illegal] immigration party? If this were Meet the Press, Tim Russert would ask, so I'll retract the question.
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I could be wrong, but I thought he said he was opposed to current legal immigration. I think he was saying at one of the debates that all immigration should be blocked or reduced for a while.
Tancredo isn't even shy about saying that legal immigration should be reduced as well. If that's not 'anti-immigrant', it's at least it's kissing cousin. It might be an over-the-line characterization, but not by much.
Let's just say that Tancredo thinks that the vast majority of immigrants are bad for the country, and at best, should be tolerated like one tolerates food that might not be quite as sanitary as it should be.
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Republican presidential hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney delivered an arsenal of red-meat, anti-liberal jokes for the fiscally conservative audience at the Americans for Prosperity “Defending the American Dream” Summit Friday night.
Romney began his speech by discussing the newly-elected President of France Nicolas Sarkozy’s admiration for Republican President Ronald Reagan. Romney said this contrasted with the admiration top Democrats running for President have for France’s traditional, socialist policies.
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“In my opinion, Hillary Clinton couldn’t even be elected the President of France, let alone President of the United States!” he panned.
While hammering away on Democrats, Romney offered a small dose of GOP-deprecating humor: “We sometimes didn’t act like Republicans. We spent too much, we earmarked too much and our ethical standards became the punch-line for Jay Leno,” Romney said.
Romney also gently teased attendees when they showed fatigue applauding his extensive tax-cutting pledges. He told them: “Which of these you get depends on how long you clap for each one, so pay great attention!”
Romney’s most hearty-applause lines, however, came when he poked fun at those on the other side of the aisle. Below is a sampling of those jokes:
ROMNEY: Someone sent me an email the other day that said when Hillary Clinton thinks “private sector” she thinks that’s a new recruit to the Army.
ROMNEY: Hillary Clinton stands up and says she’s the candidate of “change.” Well, I think she would change America---we’d go from prosperity to poverty.
ROMNEY: Those who are promoting a culture of dependency are selling that spending is a measure of how much you care. I used to try that on my parents at Christmastime. It didn’t work
ROMNEY: I came into my job when there was a $3 billion budget gap facing me and then I looked at my legislature and it was 85% Democrat. There were states across the country raising taxes, even Republican states looking at the big deficits because there was a recession going on. The combination of those circumstances was pretty unusual. And, of course, I had the Boston Globe nipping at my heels, calling for higher taxes. By the way, there is only one tax I would sign. That’s a tax on newspapers that print bad stories.
ROMNEY: Liberals look at the challenges in the world, this inflection point if you will, and they want to turn to the source of what America’s strength is. And because they’ve all spent most of their lives in government, or suing people, one or the other, they think that America has strength because America has a great government.
ROMNEY: The best way to meet a Democratic politician is to reach for your wallet and he’ll there shaking your hand.
ROMNEY: The Democrat three tax-a-teers [Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards] they don’t understand. They think everybody else is wrong and they are the only ones who have got it right. And, that does remind me of an old story, well I’ll say it’s about me. I’m driving home on Route 95 in Boston and my wife calls and says, “Mitt are you on 95 coming home?” I said “yes.” She said, “Well you better watch out. They say on the TV that there’s an idiot driving on the wrong way on the interstate highway.” And I said, “Well there’s not just one idiot, it’s hundreds of them!” And that’s how the Democrats are on taxes!
after McCain and Brownback flame out? No, of course not.
I hope somebody sensible primaries him. I'd like nothing better to see him crawl back under his rock.
He's one of the few in Congress with the guts to speak out against illegal immigration.
Why the snark about "new anti-immigrant party"? I've never heard/read Tancredo saying anything against LEGAL immigration. Your last paragraph is as misleading as the drive-by media when it comes to this issue. They just don't seem to be able to squeeze in the word "ILLEGAL".
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