Thread: Paul Expects to Gain Tancredo Supporters

Paul Expects to Gain Tancredo Supporters
By NAFEESA SYEED
Associated Press Writer

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Thursday said he expects to gain support from people who previously backed Tom Tancredo because of his tough stand against illegal immigration.

Tancredo, a Colorado congressman, quit the race for the Republican nomination on Dec. 20. Although Tancredo endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Paul said many of those people are turning his way.

"His views and my views were very similar, and therefore we will be picking up support from those individuals not only here in this state but throughout the country," Paul said at an event in a downtown Des Moines hotel.

Paul said many of his supporters are worried that the U.S., Canada and Mexico will eventually join together, creating one North American government with a single currency.

"One of the reasons I think that we do such a poor job on protecting our borders is the fact that leaders on both sides of the aisle strongly support the notion that we should have a union, where you literally obliterate the borders and have the three countries become one and that to me is a lot different than being friends," Paul said.

Paul also opposes creation of a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally, and he supports construction of a fence along the Mexican border, installation of more electronic surveillance and an increase in border patrols.

Paul said he opposes international organizations like the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization because they impinge the U.S. government's autonomy. In addition, Paul opposes the North American Free Trade Agreement.

"Although some of those goals are noble goals, I just don't think that they should be achieved by expanding government," he said.

At the event, Paul received the personal endorsement of a leader of the Iowa chapter of the national Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. The group said it supports strengthening the U.S. border to prevent illegal immigrants and contraband from entering the country.

Ron Duncan, the group's deputy director, said he endorsed Paul because of his views on illegal immigration.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/p ... ail27.html

I was for Tom Tancredo 100%, but Ron Paul has my vote.

I would hope to see Hunter get a boost from the Tancredo withdrawal. After all, Tancredo and Hunter are a lot closer on most issues than Paul and Tancredo.

Everywhere you look the polls say Paul and Hunter are in the single digits. Are the polls wrong? All of them?

Here's a website with lots of statewide and national polls:
http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/

I looked at a few, but I didn't see any that had either Paul or Hunter ahead.

I have a bit of education for all:

Why Does This Canadian Pot (Seed) Dealer Support Ron Paul?
by Rick Anderson, Seattle Weekly News (09 Aug, 2007) Because President Ron Paul will end the Drug War, legalize industrial hemp, pardon all non-violent drug offenders, and return America to the Constitutional Republic it once was


Marc Emery is a long-time Ron Paul fan
Check out the 24/7 streaming Ron Paul Radio broadcast! Speeches, songs, information, and more. Marc Emery agrees his campaign-organizing effort for some 2008 U.S. presidential candidates is a bit unorthodox. He's Canadian, his political base of operations is the B.C. Marijuana Party in Vancouver, and he can be arrested if he sets foot into America. Still, "We have a saying up here: "American politics is far too important to leave to the Americans,"" says Emery, 49, who is trying to raise cross-border support for dark-horse White House candidates. Click here to see the CC Forums discussion about this story!

He likes liberal Democrat Dennis Kucinich well enough, but prefers Republican Ron Paul, a longtime libertarian who, like Emery, opposes the U.S. war on drugs. Most important, "If Ron Paul were to win," says a hopeful Emery, "he'd pardon all the pot people." That just might include Emery, whose campaign motives aren't purely political: Putting the right person in the White House, he says, might help him avoid spending life in prison.

Known by a legion of dope growers and law-enforcement officials as the Prince of Pot, Emery has launched a truly grassroots campaign in Canada while under indictment in Seattle. The Drug Enforcement Agency [sic - Administration] labels Emery a "major marijuana dealer," although he never grew or possessed any of the illegal plants he is, by implication, accused of distributing. However, says the DEA, he sold marijuana plant seeds over the Internet, through the mail, and in person to individuals in the United States and around the globe for 11 years, leading to the eventual sprouting of millions of pounds of prized and potent B.C. bud in basements and greenhouses far away from beatific British Columbia. He was indicted in 2005 by then-U.S. Attorney John McKay on charges of conspiring to manufacture the drug.

During a 60 Minutes profile of the Prince last year, McKay called Emery "the biggest purveyor of marijuana from Canada into the United States." The DEA claimed his dope seeding resulted in 100,000 pounds of marijuana grown annually in the U.S. Over 11 years, that comes to 1.1 million pounds of dope, resulting in perhaps $2.5 billion worth of plants. "If it's true," says Emery, "I'm proud to have brought such wealth to our [drug] community." (That's the kind of smart remark, the defiant seedman adds, that "will guarantee that I get the highest sentence possible in a U.S. federal court.")

The indictment appears to be politically correct to the Bush administration, which is rumored to sometimes enforce the law ideologically. Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last December fired McKay, along with eight other U.S. attorneys, for apparently failing to follow in neocon lockstep on some issues.

But the indictment of the lefty seed grower seems to have gotten the Bush seal of approval, even if, as some argue, selling dope seeds isn't much different from selling guns - the merchandise can be used criminally but also legally (guns for protection, seeds to grow medical marijuana).

Emery allows that he may have invited U.S. scrutiny in 2002 when he and other Marijuana Party members heckled White House drug czar John Walters during a Vancouver speech. He's cheering the new effort to remove Gonzales (an impeachment resolution was filed in the House last week by Rep. Jay Inslee and others). But the election of a Democrat or, especially, a libertarian to the White House in '08 fits both Emery's political agenda and his legal strategy.

"It's my belief," says Emery, who has been a follower of Paul, a 10-term Texas congressman, for decades, "that if Ron were elected, he'd rescind the indictment against me immediately. Or at least he'd appoint an attorney general who would pardon any nonviolent drug offender, clear out the jails, and end the drug war."


Support Liberty and Peace, not Tyranny and War!
Paul's communications director, Jesse Benton, says the fledgling campaign welcomes all support. But Emery shouldn't necessarily expect amnesty from a Paul administration. "You would see a cooling of the federal war on drugs [under Paul]," Benton says. "But Ron believes in the rule of law, and I don't think this guy should look to Ron for him getting off scot-free."

Yet, if George Bush can commute the sentence of a perjurer like Scooter Libby, certainly Ron Paul could pardon a prince like Marc Emery, the seedman thinks. Facing an extradition hearing in November along with two others accused of the seed conspiracy, Emery is already planning appeals and other maneuvers to delay his likely Seattle trial until 2009, when a more friendly administration might take office.

READ THIS!!!!

Known by a legion of dope growers and law-enforcement officials as the Prince of Pot, Emery has launched a truly grassroots campaign in Canada while under indictment in Seattle. The Drug Enforcement Agency [sic - Administration] labels Emery a "major marijuana dealer," although he never grew or possessed any of the illegal plants he is, by implication, accused of distributing. However, says the DEA, he sold marijuana plant seeds over the Internet, through the mail, and in person to individuals in the United States and around the globe for 11 years, leading to the eventual sprouting of millions of pounds of prized and potent B.C. bud in basements and greenhouses far away from beatific British Columbia. He was indicted in 2005 by then-U.S. Attorney John McKay on charges of conspiring to manufacture the drug.

TO ME THIS IS ADDING TO THE CAUSE WE ARE FIGHTING!!
AND

President Ron Paul will end the Drug War, legalize industrial hemp, pardon all non-violent drug offenders, and return America to the Constitutional Republic it once was

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RON PAUL
IS NOT GOOD IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ILLEGALS!

PLAIN AND SIMPLE!

The War against Drugs is an abject failure that has led to Mexican Cartel enrichment, non-violent American citizens incarcerated and the wasteful expense of BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars without a THING to show for it. Google 'Los Amigos de Bush' for an expose on how Mexican Drug Cartels financed and influenced the gubernatorial career of our current President.

You can also click on the 'Marijuana Myth Busters' thread in 'Other Topics' for a look at how we've been lied to about a plant that has little to no downside, other than it's ability to compete with Dupont (nylon) and Hearst (wood pulp).