Posted on 03/23/2007 3:37:44 PM PDT by EndWelfareToday
WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Tancredo has raised more than $1 million for his exploratory presidential bid, saying that makes it far more likely he will follow through with a full-fledged candidacy.
Tancredo, R-Littleton, said hes aware of the daunting odds he faces going up against bigger-name Republican contenders who have millions more dollars in the bank.
Still, he said he takes heart in the large number of average folks - backers of his hard-line stand against illegal immigration - who have made small contributions averaging $59 on the Team Tancredo web site.
"Its amazing to me," Tancredo said. "I know were going to be a long way from the war chests that are out there. On the other hand, I feel like Ive got more people that are committed to me and the ideas I represent than a lot of these other guys."
Tancredo put himself in the second-tier of Republican contenders, behind front-runners like former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Still, he had set a goal of raising $1 million for his exploratory committee, Tancredo for a Secure America, by the end of the first quarter of this year.
Crossing that goal, "kicks my enthusiasm level up about a million times," Tancredo said in phone interview.
"It just simply means its certainly more likely that we will announce I will be a candidate for president," he said.
Hell make a final decision within two weeks.
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Of course he does. Somehow all the people who can't possibly win have the support of freepers.
From the stories I've heard, Tancredo should be criss-crossing Iowa in an old Chevy and eating bags of peanuts and he would do better than the top three. GOP candidates are getting hammered everywhere they go in the state about illegal immigration. It also doesn't seem that Iowans are hearing anything they like so far.
A fool and his money are easily parted.
I think he drives a newer Chevy truck. Saw him on the road a few weeks ago.
Shows you how long I've been around here. I can't tell if you're kidding or not...:-)
Good for him and for us. While I doubt even he thinks he can win, his presence in the debates will be a good thing.
He'd be better as the new head of DHS, with free reign.
Somehow all the people who can't possibly win have the support of freepers.
Yes, I know. Those Rudybots crack me up.
LoL
Really?
Must piss the leftists off when they adopt that philosophy eh!? I seem to remember "freepers" supporting both George Bush's and before FR existed, Ronald Reagan; and guess what... ALL THREE WON!
Tancredo has grassroots support. The majority of the American people agree with him and if the American people can stop coddling the left and stand behind Tancredo's tough rhetoric and rock solid conservative principles we may well have a candidate Conservatives can be proud of. Not some weak kneed left leaning moderate globalist hell bent on destroying the United States of America.
No, he's my Representative. I've seen him around town for at least eight years.
Okay. Cool. I already liked him. But now that I know he actually drives a Chevy, I'm behind him 100 percent!
Reagan was already a nationally well known figure, Bush Senior was a GOP leader who had been Vice President twice, and Bush Jr. had the family name and had been Governor of Texas. Hardly unknown figures and none of them were Congresscritters looking for attention.
Good news! If we'd all stop thinking of him as the candidate who can't win, maybe he could.
I think it's too bad that the borders crowd has split itself among three House candidates (Hunter, Tancredo, Paul), all longshots because they're running as congressmen. It makes it so unlikely they can do anything more then destroy each others' chances. And with three of them splitting that vote, none might have enough standing in the polls to be in the major debates.
You're right, conservatives need to pick one. If Thompson gets in though, the choice will have been made.
Amen. I think he has a lot more support than the powers that be are giving him credit for.
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