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Posted on 06/05/2006 8:23:19 PM PDT by boryeulb
Rep. Tom Tancredo's get-tough-first attitude on immigration reform is having a positive impact on his possible presidential run in 2008. The Colorado Republican won tonight's GOP straw poll in Macomb County, Mich., located in the Detroit metro area.
Tancredo took about 18% of the vote of 325 votes cast at the Lincoln Day Dinner. Although it was only a plurality on a fractured GOP ballot, Tancredo beat out GOP heavyweights Rudy Giuliani, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Here are the complete results, courtesy of Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis:
Candidate Votes Percent
Tom Tancredo 60 18.5%
Rudy Giuliani 45 13.8%
Mitt Romney 40 12.3%
Condi Rice 39 12.0%
Newt Gingrich 38 11.7%
John McCain 38 11.7%
George Allen 21 6.5%
Mike Pence 15 4.6%
Ron Paul 14 4.3%
Mike Huckabee 6 1.8%
Bill Frist 4 1.2%
Alan Keyes 2 0.6%
Candice Miller 2 0.6%
Sam Brownback 1 0.3%
Perhaps most surprisingly are the first and last-place finishers. Tancredo is an immigration hawk who leads the House Immigration Reform Caucus, while the normally reliable Brownback has strayed from the conservative base to back President Bush's immigration plan.
"Thanks for saying what needs to be said...as always!"
You're most welcome. Happy to oblige. I'm a bit Ann Coulter-like. I shoot from the hip.
"As for your "feelings" about those who back Rice, you're insulting good people."
Well, if it isn't PC, then those good people are, IMO, politically naive. There, a second insult for you to stew over.
"She's brilliant but I don't expect her to run."
You are right. I believe she will go back to Academia. I think it best suits her personality.
EXCELLENT!
Flaglady47 is 100% right BUMP!
If you know what a candidate stands for, it makes sense to be for them. If not, wtf are you voting on, their popularity? Why not make it more subtle, and pick `em based on whether they'll hold a good prom and get better food in the school cafeteria?
"What's so good about having held elective office?"
Dwight Eisenhower. George Washington.
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The "brilliant" Condi Rice said that Israel hadn't done enough, and still needed to do alot more, after Israel forcibly kicked their own citizens out of their homes to give land to the savage palistinians. I immediately decided at that moment that I would never give her my support if she were to run for president.
Hey Gipper, Howie wants to know more about Mike Pence.
(Gipper is the Mike Pence guru.)
'Johnny One-Trick Pony' would make a terrible POTUS.
Tancredo/Hayworth or Tancredo/Sessions would be a winner :)
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You my be right. She comes across as far more independently thinking to me however, which is huge as Bush seems to operate off of his personal agenda, like it or not. She's impressed me ten-fold over anything that's ever come out of Bush's mouth. Bush has talked a good game, pushed "phase I," very generally speaking, but seems to not have much strategic vision.
I know the Bush-bots will jump all over this and say that he has vision which is predicated on his strategy for the War in Iraq, but I would argue the contrary there. I'm not at all against the liberating of Iraq, but at this point it appears that we're going to be there indefinitely, which would be fine if Iraq were the only haven for Islamic terrorism. But that's far from the case. It's all over the world now witness the most recent discoveries, and apparently not a day too soon, in Canada.
As well, many would argue strategic outlook on his USSC nominations. I'll concede that with Roberts, but not with Alito as Miers was W's vision there.
Anyway, getting back on point, I think that Rice is far more the thinker and reasoner than Bush is. Her interviews blow Bush's out of the water. I trust her, although you raise some good points.
"Rudy is not a Republican darn it"
He's what passes for a Republican these days.
I understand she's pro abortion also. That by itself takes her (and Rudy) off my list.
When citizens who vote Republican continually lower their conservative standards and level of conservative principled expectations of the candidates and party that they vote for (as I see so many apparently willing to do to win at any cost) it will by no surprise of the imagination always cause candidates that blur the line between parties to cross the line and label themselves as Republicans (in name only) just to get the vote. The more these CRINO's are voted into office, the more the lines get blurred between the two political parties. - OB1
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