Maybe YOU can forget about "this guy". But regardless of Fred Thompson entering the race or not Tom Tancredo won’t make it past New Hampshire. Frankly I doubt he will make it past the Iowa caucuses.
jackieaxe wrote: “Tom Tancredo was in NH yesterday and said Fred Thompson’s immigration position “sucks”. If that’s true, forget about this guy.”
Oh, I forgot about Tancredo a good while back. He’s a loose cannon and a one-note toon. His tendency to engage his mouth well before his brain has pretty much quashed any hopes he had for a presidential run. His idea of how to respond to an Islamofacist attack on the U.S. with a tactical nuke was to “take out Mecca.”
Before he was the “Immigration Guy,” Tom Tancredo was the “Term Limits Guy.” What got him elected in the first place was his support of term limits, including his personal pledge to adhere to them. “I made a pledge, I took the pledge, I will live up to the pledge,” said Tancredo in 2001 to the Rocky Mountain News, promising to serve only three terms in the House of Representatives. Tancredo broke his solemn oath and ran for a fourth term. He can’t be trusted to keep his word. Tancredo has no integrity.
Fred Thompson, in contrast, introduced Senate Joint Resolution 21 in 1995 proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms to two terms for Senators and three terms for Representatives. In a 2002 interview with TIME magazine, Fred said, “George Washington served eight years and left town, and I think his example ought to be more the rule than the exception.” True to his word, Thompson left the Senate after serving just one and a half terms. Unlike Tancredo, Fred Thompson has proven himself to be a man of his word and a man with real integrity.
Tancredo will find fault with someone's immigration stand even if they advocated a wrought-iron wall alongside the border.