Thread: Tancredo for President 2008 Blog

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First Choice:

Tancredo 308 77.8%
Romney 21 5.3%
Gingrich 19 4.8%
18 4.5%
Giuliani 9 2.3%
McCain 7 1.8%
Brownback 6 1.5%
Hagel 2 0.5%
Hunter 2 0.5%
Gilmore 2 0.5%
Thompson 1 0.3%
Huckabee 1 0.3%

I am a Tancredo fan that is for sure! He has my vote for 2008.

I am all for Tancredo but after watching him
on different talk shows I felt that he
could have articulated his point better.

Last time he was on the O'Reilly Factor he
lacked the conviction to xplain why
he thinks he can be the next President.

I think he needs a drastic improvement how
to pass his message along to be taken seriously.

What do you think? am I wrong?

I agree Odie. He's going to have to toughen up, no more Mr. Nice Guy, and deliver the message clearly and with confidence.

Well, he sure looks good to me in comparison to those politicians who memorize all their points and lie through their teeth. Maybe he could articulate a little better, but I will take an ethical and moral man over the great speakers who have no interest in what is best for America and would sell their soul to the devil for buck.

I agree with you too, April! Also, it would be nice for the person to really be able to be himself or herself and I think people look for that. We'd like to get the real person, not someone who is good at acting.

But I think what most people would mean is that Congressman Tancredo is such a decent and good man, but there will be times when they will be out to get him. I think he will hold up just fine though!!
Tancredo 2008!!

I think he will too.

What we want and NEED is something different, a man that understands what it is to not be privileged and wealthy from birth on, a common man who is different from all the smooth talking snakes. Those snakes have plenty of speech writers and advisers telling them how best to fool us, instead of how best to serve us.

I believe that those who wish him to go away have always been out to get him and he has not given up or backed off the issues that are important to the majority of Americans. The reason we are gravitating toward him is because we sense that he is genuine.To have a politician that is NOT catering to the wealthy and the corporations is a very REFRESHING change.

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He has two votes in my family for sure; no matter what.

Go Tancredo!

I found this info on Tom Tancredo. How he faces controversy....and deals with it.



Immigration issues
Tancredo is noted for his outspoken criticism of ineffective border control and illegal immigration, and his support for general immigration reduction. His supporters claim he represents the silent Majority of American citizens who want existing U.S. laws upheld. His critics claim he is xenophobic and that his proposed measures do not address underlying causes. He has received press attention for highlighting individual illegal immigrant families for deportation, such as that of an honor student trying to gain admission to the University of Colorado at Boulder, who had publicly complained about having to pay out-of-state tuition rates because he was illegally in the country.

In May 1999, Tancredo founded the House Immigration Reform Caucus. He still serves as its chairman. The caucus, made up mostly of Republicans, focuses on reviewing immigration policy but has not yet been successful in implementing significant reforms.

His advocacy for immigration reform is so strident that he has not been welcome in the White House since criticizing George W. Bush's border security controls. Tancredo and George W. Bush's political advisor, Karl Rove, got into a "screaming match" after Tancredo claimed that "if the nation suffered another attack at the hands of terrorists able to skirt immigration laws, 'the blood of the people killed' would be on the president's and Congress's hands... Rove responded by calling the congressman 'a traitor to the party', 'a traitor to the president' and warned him to never 'darken the doorstep of the White House.'" Tancredo responded that "the president's position on immigration is going to hurt him. I want the president to win the 2004 election. I am not doing any of these things or saying any of these things because I want to hurt the Republican Party or the president." The National Review's David Frum wrote that "no issue, not one, threatens to do more damage to the Republican coalition than immigration," which many say explains in part Rove's sensitivity to Tancredo's criticism.

Once, according to The New Republic, "when The Denver Post profiled an illegal immigrant high school student with a 3.9 grade point average, Tancredo tried to have the boy deported." The New Republic article also quotes Tancredo saying that keeping immigrants out of the United States is a question of national identity and accusing his opponents of nihilistic cultural relativism and anti-Americanism:

America is wrestling with an identity crisis. Part of it is a result of what I call the 'cult of multiculturalism.' The idea that there is nothing—nothing—of value in Western civilization, that we have nothing to offer the world, that we have nothing to offer as a viable society, that everything we have is bad and ugly.... If we are truly in a clash of civilizations... which I happen to believe, then it is important for us to understand who we are. What does it mean to be part of Western civilization? Are there inherent values that are worth anyone's allegiance?
The most significant immigration-related legislation that Tancredo has worked to pass is H.R. 946, The Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2003. The act would have imposed an indefinite moratorium on immigration to the United States. Only 30,000 total legal immigrants would have been allowed into the country annually for at least the first five years of the act and, after that, until such time as there were fewer than 10,000 illegal immigrants entering per year. When those conditions were met immigration would only have been allowed at whatever level the president and both houses of Congress agreed would have no adverse impact on wages, housing, the environment, or schools. When last introduced in 2003, the bill had 11 cosponsors. Organizations that have endorsed Tancredo's bill include: NumbersUSA, Population-Environment Balance, Carrying Capacity Network, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Negative Population Growth, American Renaissance magazine, and the American Patrol.

Tancredo founded the Team America political action committee in order to collect contributions for immigration-restrictionist inclined congressional representatives and candidates. Due to campaign law he had to resign after founding it. The current chair is Bay Buchanan, sister of politician Pat Buchanan.

In February 2005, Tancredo announced he will seek the Republican nomination for president if all other candidates fail to address the illegal immigration problem. He is already visiting early primary states like New Hampshire. In July 2005, Tancredo confirmed that he was moving towards a presidential run.

Other Controversies
In July 2005, in a press release from his congressional office, Tancredo responded to Zhu Chenghu's statement advocating the use of nuclear weapons against the United States. Tancredo stated "For a senior government official to exhibit such tremendous stupidity by making such a brazen threat is hardly characteristic of a modern nation" and demanded an immediate apology from the Chinese government.

The same day, during a radio interview on Orlando talk-radio station AM 540 WFLA, Tancredo responded to a question asking about a potential U.S. response to a nuclear attack on U.S. cities by al-Qaeda by saying that one response would be to retaliate by "taking out" Muslim holy sites (specifically, Mecca) if it were clearly proven that Islamic terrorists were behind such an attack. Days later, in an interview on CNN together with James Zogby, Tancredo claimed he meant the comment as merely a threat to retaliate and refused to apologize.

Conservative Political Action Conference
On February 9, 2006, Tancredo addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference. Tancredo attacked the administration for its support of a guest-worker program for illegal aliens and its big-spending ways on education and Medicare prescription drugs."It is the President who is out of step with his party, not Tom Tancredo," the Colorado Republican said of himself to a standing ovation at 33rd annual gathering of conservatives.

Then he took on the Bush guest-worker plan and said:

It is the employer community which sees profits from cheap labor, and the hell with the (impact on) the American taxpayer. The conservative movement can either be the voice of principle ... or it can be the voice of the Chamber of Commerce, but it cannot be both.
Tancredo called for the repeal of two programs offered by President Bush: the No Child Left Behind Act and the Medicare prescription drug program. Both expanded the cost of government and drew the scorn of conservatives in Congress. Tancredo said the Big Government policies of the Bush administration need to be halted. He said conservatives must return the GOP to a "party of individual rights and shouldn't afraid to say it."

"The American people don't understand what Republicans stand for anymore," as he proudly declared that he had voted against Bush's prescription drug plan, his Central American trade proposal and his "$100 billion Katrina slush fund."

"American conservatives have watched dumbfounded as their Congress -- their Republican Congress -- and the Republican White House engineered the largest expansion of the federal government in modern history," Tancredo said.

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