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A true maverick for Colorado: Who’s afraid of Tom Tancredo?
Michelle Malkin.com ^ | 6/13/14 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 06/14/2014 1:36:56 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Panicked liberals and crony Republican elitists agree: Tom Tancredo would be bad for their Big Government and Big Business rackets. That’s exactly why I support him in Colorado’s June 24 GOP primary election for governor. A fear-mongering ad campaign by the left-wing group “ProgressNow,” which is funded by billionaire George Soros, hyperventilated last week that “Tancredo believes Obamacare is a scam.” Gasp! “Scam” is putting it politely, of course. Billions of dollars have been wasted on defunct and dysfunctional Obamacare health exchanges. Criminals, illegal aliens and con artists have been hired as “navigators” to sign up Obamacare enrollees (a.k.a. future Democratic voters). And millions of Americans of all backgrounds, including my family, have had their plans canceled thanks to the costs and regulatory burdens of the law. Workers have seen their wages and hours cut; employers, especially small and family-owned businesses, have been forced to drop coverage. It’s absurd to call Tancredo’s dead-on diagnosis of Obamacare “radical.” But the pile-on against Tancredo isn’t just coming from out-of-touch Democrats. Here in Colorado, many corporatist Republicans who support the suicidal push for illegal alien amnesty claim Tancredo “can’t win” because his “divisive,” unrelenting stance on securing America’s borders (gasp again!) will scare away Hispanic voters. This attack on Tancredo is nonsense on stilts.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: colorado; georgesoros; michellemalkin; tomtancredo
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To: impimp

If a foreign company can’t do business here without bringing in their own workforce, they do us no good anyway and can shove their business up their ass.


21 posted on 06/14/2014 2:01:59 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Big Gov and Big Corp are the SAME thing. And the problem with Gov isn’t so much that it’s big, but that it isn’t Conservative. At least with Government you stand the chance of voting people out. Corporations answer to no one and are even more dangerous. Privatize nothing but run it efficiently.

Sounds like Tancredo may be a guy who can do this.


22 posted on 06/14/2014 2:02:25 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: LongWayHome

Need based immigration.


23 posted on 06/14/2014 2:02:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yes....cream of the crop immigration. No more third world immigration. And low numbers. No more millions a year.


24 posted on 06/14/2014 2:04:26 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: cripplecreek

You know nothing about business. They have to bring their foreign executives to set up the business in the US.


25 posted on 06/14/2014 2:04:50 PM PDT by impimp
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To: impimp
Stop with the rhetoric. Answer my question.

Jawohl mein führer!

Or better yet, why don't you just leave the US, and I'll gladly allow Geert Wilders to come in as your replacement.

26 posted on 06/14/2014 2:06:00 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: impimp

And only an idiot thinks foreign executives have any problem immigration to this country. You’re lying like a pro.


27 posted on 06/14/2014 2:06:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Yossarian

So you try and use humor to deflect from the fact that you don’t truly support Tancredo’s fruitcake view that all legal immigration needs to stop. He has crazy views so I say throw him under the bus.


28 posted on 06/14/2014 2:08:37 PM PDT by impimp
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To: cripplecreek

They wouldn’t be able to immigrate as Tancredo has said he wants no legal or illegal immigration.


29 posted on 06/14/2014 2:10:03 PM PDT by impimp
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To: impimp
So you try and use humor to deflect from the fact that you don’t truly support Tancredo’s fruitcake view that all legal immigration needs to stop.

No, you clearly cannot see what I clearly did in this thread. I effectively refuted your assertion that "The United States needs more legal immigration".

That is nonsense, and you are flailing around with non-sequiters rather than defending your assertion.

As far as Tancredo goes, I have no idea. I have my own things to worry about, and I'll let the voters of CO figure him out.

30 posted on 06/14/2014 2:12:56 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: impimp

The United States has always had pauses in legal immigration in order for new immigrants to assimilate.

We also need to radically change the legal immigration policies to admit more educated workers, preferably from Europe.

We have to end chain migration and the importation of immigrants, legal and otherwise, who are ill educated. We have millions of native born Americans that have been priced out of jobs at the lower end of the skills ladder.


31 posted on 06/14/2014 2:22:55 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Dr. Thorne
When I lived in Colorado, I voted for Tom Tancredo every time he ran. He was my CongressCritter for two terms. (I moved) If I lived in Colorado, he would not only be my first choice, he would be my only choice.
His biggest hurdle is not Higgenlooper, but the Republican Party. They would rather lose to Higgenlooper than win with Tancredo.
32 posted on 06/14/2014 2:24:56 PM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: LongWayHome

That will mean a near moratorium on immigration but that’s the fault of the government and their crony leeches.

My uncle runs some sort of business mentoring program out of UofM and says the whole experience has really soured him on the relationship between government and business. He has people both foreign and domestic who only want subsidies. Some actually have great business plans but no intent of actually working for them and some have a business plan that involves going from state to state taking subsidies. One of my uncle’s former clients is facing charges for fraud after taking subsidies from about 6 separate states only to flee back to India and start his business there with a several million dollar head start.


33 posted on 06/14/2014 2:25:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: LongWayHome

“Yes....cream of the crop immigration. No more third world immigration. And low numbers. No more millions a year.”

What, you mean no more picking up entire villages of Somalians and plopping them down here on welfare? You are a cruel brute sir.


34 posted on 06/14/2014 2:26:15 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Yossarian
You have just lost your credibility. 100 million out of work. The total non-farm labor force in the U.S. is 137,386,000 in Dec 2013 (http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/compaes.txt). Total unemployed is approximately 11,000,000 (http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat26.htm). Where do you get that 100,000,000 are out of work because of legal immigration?
35 posted on 06/14/2014 2:26:42 PM PDT by sefarkas (Why vote Democrat Lite?)
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To: impimp

The U.S. Economy is in the toilet.

Much of it bogged down by millions of native born Americans who languish on welfare programs because as legal residents they can not afford to work at the subpar, off the books wages illegals are more than happy to take. An illegal doesn’t pay roll taxes. The don’t get health benefits and they don’t need OSHA regulations as a complaint finds them SOL and out on their butts.


36 posted on 06/14/2014 2:27:14 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: sefarkas

“You have just lost your credibility”

Same to you since you quote bogus BLS numbers as gospel.


37 posted on 06/14/2014 2:29:37 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: impimp

Nonsense. What a load of disinformation you spew.

Tancredo supports legal immigration, in fact he attends naturalization ceremonies for new legal immigrants.

It really does not matter what your opinion is (or Tancredo’s) regarding US immigration policy, as Tancredo is running to become governor of the State of Colorado (Bienvenido al Estado de Colorado).


38 posted on 06/14/2014 2:30:18 PM PDT by Unknowing (Now is the time for all smart little girls to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: dljordan

Lol, indeed.


39 posted on 06/14/2014 2:36:25 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: dljordan
What, you mean no more picking up entire villages of Somalians and plopping them down here on welfare? You are a cruel brute sir.

The last factory I worked in benefited from something like that. They nearly quadrupled the workforce with Guatemalans and cut us all to part time. The American Hispanics were pissed because the Guatemalans were living 15 or so to a house with 5 or 6 working and the rest getting welfare. They were dumped in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods where Hispanic Americans had been living since WWII. The factory remained open just long enough for the long time employees to get fed up and leave then they shut the doors.
40 posted on 06/14/2014 2:41:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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