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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has picked up an endorsement from former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo (tan-KRAY-doh). The failed gubernatorial and presidential candidate is a tea party favorite. Santorum was campaigning in Colorado on Wednesday ahead of next week's GOP caucuses there in hopes of building some momentum for his White House bid. Santorum also was endorsed Wednesday by former congressman Bob Shaffer and former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton.

Herman Cain would make a great president of the United States. He is my candidate, and he has a good chance of becoming the candidate of the Republican Party. Cain's only weakness is political inexperience, and that leads to mistakes in his campaign, but it is not a disqualification for the office. In fact, in the eyes of most voters, it is more a blessing than a curse. Based on my 30 years in public life, I see three qualifications for public office and for the office of president.

In a column for the Daily Caller, Tancredo, who ran twice for his party's presidential nomination in an effort to inject the illegal immigration issue into the larger debate, is slamming Perry for his soft policies on illegal immigration in Texas -- and what Tancredo calls his "Muslim blind spot." "What is not yet as widely known about Perry is that he extends his taxpayer-funded compassion not only to illegal aliens but also to Muslim groups seeking to whitewash the violent history of that religion," Tancredo writes. "Perry endorsed and facilitated the adoption in Texas public schools of a pro-Muslim...

On Saturday Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce whether or not he will run for president. Many now believe he will. Perry is eager to separate himself from his predecessor in the Texas governor’s mansion, George W. Bush — who is unpopular with both tea party Republicans and the American electorate as a whole. But one area where Perry’s positions are virtually identical to Bush is immigration. When I ran for president in 2008, I tried to pressure the Republican candidates to take a hard line against illegal immigration. For this, Perry called me a racist. When he...

I’m the first to acknowledge that among the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, many are hardworking, law-abiding members of our society. A very small percentage were brought here by their parents, and did not choose to break the law themselves. The media endlessly reports on these hard cases to implicitly — and sometimes explicitly — promote bad laws, like the DREAM Act and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. The latest of these hard cases involves the former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas, who revealed he was an illegal immigrant in a new New York Times...

(Exchange starts near 2:50 mark) Martin Bashir to Fmr. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO): "To follow your logic, would you have then preferred the death of the president as opposed to bin Laden?" Tancredo responds: "Of course not, my God."

Like most people, I enjoy a good joke. But Donald Trump for president? With apologies to Karl Rove, it's not really that funny. The Trump candidacy is not a joke; it's a scam. But its success with millions of voters shows us we are a nation very susceptible to scams if they are done on a grand enough scale...... In Donald Trump we have a liberal billionaire with a long record of supporting Democratic candidates who is willing to spend unlimited amounts of money to reinvent himself as a populist conservative. Ordinarily, that would be an impossible, even laughable undertaking....

Tom Tancredo or Allen west, for 2012, only two choices that will save our republic.

At their new political high-water mark, Republicans have plenty of reasons to celebrate - and at least one large cause for worry. On Election Day, voters shattered the Obama agenda of expanded public benefits and increased income tax progressivity, leaving the president to reassemble his goals with glue and tape. During this midterm cycle, Republicans became reacquainted with estranged friends: independents, seniors, college-educated voters, working-class voters, rural voters and suburban voters. The Republican Party will benefit from the infusion of diverse, attractive new leaders, including some, such as Florida Sen.-elect Marco Rubio, with Tea Party pedigrees.

Listening to Peter Boyles show this morning. Tom Tancredo on. Listen Live here: 630 KHOW

While the conservative resurgence throughout the nation in yesterday’s election looks promising for Americans who are desperately reaching for the brake pedal to stop Obama’s out-of-control side-skid to the left, Colorado Democrats continue to hold on to considerable power. Given a refreshingly real choice between conservative secure-borders candidate Tom Tancredo and radical leftist Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the voters chose the option that will ensure Colorado remains an open-borders, sanctuary state for illegal aliens. The Looper, as he is called by some conservatives, won fair and square – in pretty much a landslide. The invasion continues. For Michelle Malkin’s pre-election...

The Denver Post called it the most bizarre gubernatorial campaign in state history. Indeed. In the end, Democrat John Hickenlooper, mayor of Denver, cruised to victory with a large margin. But it all could have gone very differently. Republican Dan Maes' campaign was a complete disaster. After knocking of the GOP favorite Scot McInnis, who became mired in a plaigarism scandal, Maes is on track to earn less than 10% of the vote, which would hand the GOP "minority party status" in upcoming elections. This would kick the Republican Party lower on subsequent ballots, relegating it to the land of...

As of noon in Colorado, nearly 74,000 more Republicans have voted than Democrats: DEM–419444 REP–493399 UAF–291152 TOTAL–1211297

American Constitution Party leaders say Denver is not giving the party fair access to a vote tabulation room to prevent possible voter irregularities. Denver elections watchers can only view the process in which questionable ballots are scanned by city election workers from outside the room through a window. "To have a pane of glass between a watcher and judges doesn't allow watchers to hear and see everything that is going on inside," said Amanda Campbell, an American Constitution Party executive committee member and a candidate for Colorado Secretary of State. But city officials say they allowed American Constitution Party members...

For many Republicans, the bright, golden haze of Election Day is marred by a thunderhead on the horizon -- the increasingly erratic political interventions of Sarah Palin. In the past, Palin embodied the populist style of the Tea Party movement while espousing a fairly mainstream Republican ideology. On economic, social and foreign policy, Palin seldom strayed from a simplified, popularized Reaganism. The mama grizzly may have been ferocious, but her talking points came from the Heritage Foundation instead of from darker corners of the right. But this election season has called that perception into question. Palin's endorsement of Christine O'Donnell...

Tom Tancredo will become Colorado's next governor, and Republicans will take over the state's legislature while Attorney General John Suthers will be re-elected, predicted David Flaherty, president and CEO of Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, a Louisville, CO, pollster that works for Republicans around the country. In a phone interview, Flaherty said polls that show John Hickenlooper winning the gubernatorial race are using demographics and turnout numbers that incorrectly skew their results in favor of Democrats. "I do believe that Tom Tancredo is going to win," Flaherty declared. In recent polls, Tancredo has about 73% of Republican voters. Flaherty thinks...

How are you going to judge a fight where one of the competitors only dances and never punches? I score it for the man who is engaged and competing. What if there is a fight and one side keeps throwing exceptionally low blows? At a certain point, that kind of dirty fighter gets disqualified by any fair referee. I am voting for Tancredo and Buck. It is kind of shocking for me to write, let alone do. The vast majority of my votes have been Democratic through the years. I voted for Obama in 2008. I am disappointed in the...

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DENVER (AP) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has endorsed Tom Tancredo, the American Constitution Party candidate for governor. Palin urged voters Monday to support Tancredo, saying he will fight for lower taxes and smaller government. The 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee also said Tancredo will start growing the economy.

Tom Tancredo will become Colorado's next governor, and Republicans will take over the state's legislature while Attorney General John Suthers will be re-elected, predicted David Flaherty, president and CEO of Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, a Louisville, CO, pollster that works for Republicans around the country. In a phone interview, Flaherty said polls that show John Hickenlooper winning the gubernatorial race are using demographics and turnout numbers that incorrectly skew their results in favor of Democrats. "I do believe that Tom Tancredo is going to win," Flaherty declared. In recent polls, Tancredo has about 73% of Republican voters. Flaherty thinks...

Republican candidate Dan Maes now has just single-digit support, but Democrat John Hickenlooper still holds a slight lead over independent candidate Tom Tancredo in Colorado’s race for governor. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state shows Hickenlooper with a 47% to 42% lead over Tancredo, a former GOP congressman now running as the candidate of the American Constitution Party. Maes trails with five percent (5%) support. Six percent (6%) like some other candidate in the race, and one percent (1%) is undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) This is the best showing yet...

While Tom Tancredo's campaign thinks the Denver Post is trying to drag John Hickenlooper's carcass over the finish line in the guv race, Tanc has honor rally organizer Glenn Beck in his corner. On his radio show, Beck recently declared that if Tancredo was elected, he might move to Colorado, adding that voting for Big Tom was essentially like voting for him. See progressive yakker Ed Shultz take on these two alleged "Halloweenies" in a clip from his MSNBC program on view below:

Tancredo Stays Competitive In Colorado Gov Race Hickenlooper Remains Locked In 50 Percent Range POSTED: 6:39 pm MDT October 28, 2010 DENVER -- Tom Tancredo is quick to admit he brings plenty of baggage to the Colorado governor's race. Like the time he called Miami a "Third World country." Or when he got thrown out of the White House for suggesting then-President George W. Bush was soft on illegal immigration. Or when he refused to take part in a presidential debate because it was on a Spanish-language network. This week, he added more fuel to the fire when he said...

CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) — Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo says President Barack Obama is a bigger threat to the United States than al-Qaida or terrorism. He made the comments while campaigning in Canon City Tuesday, and his comments were reported Wednesday by the Canon City Daily Record. Tancredo said that Obama posed a threat to the Constitution, saying: "It's not al-Qaida, it's the guy sitting in the White House." Tancredo also said he believes Obama and Democratic Colorado gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper are "kindred spirits." Tancredo has a reputation for controversial comments, including a suggestion that the United States...

COLORADO SPRINGS — A visibly worn Dan Maes urged a group of 25 Tea Party activists to send Republican rainmakers a message by voting Maes for governor, even though it could cost conservatives the election. The small event Monday was one of just two Maes appearances scheduled in the eight days before Election Day as the GOP nominee — hemorrhaging support and among the least-popular candidates in the country — limps toward the finish line. His opponents, Democrat John Hickenlooper and third-party candidate Tom Tancredo, in the meantime are embarked upon cross-state sweeps as the election clock runs out. The...

More polling news from the Tancredo campaign: Another poll has been released and the news just keeps getting better. This time the poll comes from the left-leaning Public Policy Institute Poll and it has us within 3% points of Hickenlooper: 47% to 44% with Maes dropping to an all-time low of 5%. This is within the margin of error — and the sponsor of the poll went on radio and said this race could be a “major upset.” We plan on making those words come true. The other good news is that the momentum is all ours — we are...

In an upsetting kind of year, there are bound to be more surprise upsets when votes actually are counted next week. So this is a good time to look ahead in an attempt to figure out where those final upsets might pop up. Bryan Curtis on The Daily Beast offers up one potential shocker: Immigration hawk Tom Tamcerdo, running as a third-party candidate, could win the Colorado governor’s race: Let’s stipulate that at least one wild and inexplicable event will occur on Election Night. Here’s a nominee: Tom Tancredo, a man whose immigration rhetoric was so rough that he was...

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper comments on disgraced Obama energy czar Van Jones.

From the Tancredo for Governor 2010 Facebook page.

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(CNN) - Tom Tancredo's third party bid for Colorado governor is getting a big endorsement from a leading member of the Tea Party movement. The chairman of the Tea Party Express, one of the most well-known and politically active national Tea Party organizations, on Monday endorsed Tancredo. "Tom Tancredo has always been there for the constitutional conservative principles that drive the tea party movement, and I am honored to support him," said Amy Kremer, in a statement. Tancredo, a former congressman who's been extremely outspoken on the issue of illegal immigration, is running for governor as the American Constitution Party's...

DENVER, Colorado, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The race for Colorado’s governorship now shows a virtual tie between former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a pro-life 3rd party candidate, and pro-abortion Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat. Tancredo, a staunch pro-life, pro-family advocate known for his anti-illegal-immigration views, has surged into a dead heat with Hickenlooper, now that GOP candidate Dan Maes campaign has collapsed amid allegations of campaign finance abuse and flip-flopping on the issues. Running on the American Constitution Party (ACP) ticket, Tancredo now picks up 43 percent of the vote, according to a poll of 1067 likely voters...

El Marco's disturbing photo-essay reveals Tom Tancredo in a new light. Tancredo's proudest lifetime achievement is the Sudan Peace Act, which he authored and sponsored as a congressman. Now, for the first time, the Sudanese community in America speaks out in support of Tancredo, while bitterly criticizing Obama. Here is what escaped slave Francis Bok had to say about Tancredo and Sudan: He should be considered for governor because he’s someone that has a vision, he’s someone that is always looking years in front of him, he’s someone that is visioning for others. And those others are us. I have...

Tom Tancredo continues to surge as Dan Maes' support completely collapses in the Colorado Governor's race and John Hickenlooper now leads the race by only a 47-44 margin with Maes getting 5%. Hickenlooper's been unable to rise above the 47-48% mark in PPP's polls over the last three months. When Tancredo and Maes were splitting the vote relatively evenly it looked like that would be enough to win but now Hickenlooper really appears to be at risk of losing. Given the trajectory of the race it is not inconceivable that Tancredo could pick up a good chunk of even the...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper has a wide lead over his opponents going into the last days of the election, despite third-party candidate Tom Tancredo's ability to siphon votes from the Republican nominee, according to a Denver Post/9News poll. With 49 percent of those surveyed backing him, Hickenlooper now has more support than Tancredo and Republican candidate Dan Maes combined. Tancredo, a former Republican congressman, continues to peel off GOP voters, garnering 39 percent, while Maes continues to slide, coming in at 9 percent. Only 1 percent of those polled said they were undecided. "It's hard to see how Tancredo...

Former Congressman Tom Tancredo has made a race in Colorado. His immigration policies appear to be winning over Republicans and independents in the Rocky Mountain state and he's still gaining. The registered Republican is running as an independent in the three-way race for Governor of that state. Despite the fact that Tancredo started around 10% in the polls, a weak Republican candidate has allowed him to surge into a solid second place. The race appears to be volatile, which may help Tancredo win over independent and disaffected voters. In this Republican wave year, he may be able to win over...

American Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo has decided no more Mister Nice Guy. He's going after his opponents — Democrat and Republican — with double-barreled ads he hopes will take them out in the waning days of Colorado's gubernatorial campaign. Tancredo's campaign spent about $60,000 on the ads, which are airing more than a dozen times a day on some rural radio stations and some television stations. His ad against GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes includes a litany of accusations made over the past few months. Titled, "Dan Maes: Bankrupt," it cites Maes' bankruptcy filing at age 29, one...

In primaries this year, Republican voters in Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Nevada, and Utah, have rejected—en masse—the candidates preferred by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which Rove is said to informally advise. The Conservative Party candidate Tom Tancredo—a known enemy of Rove—is trouncing the GOP-backed candidate in the race for governor of Colorado.

By Sean J. Miller - 10/22/10 02:48 PM ET A new poll shows the Colorado governor's race in a statistical tie between Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) and former Rep. Tom Tancredo. The result should concern Democrats who had expected Hickenlooper to coast to victory with the conservative vote split between Tancredo, who's running on the American Constitution Party line, and Republican nominee Dan Maes. But Maes has been steadily bleeding support after a series of damaging press reports crippled his candidacy. In the Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies survey released Friday, he took just 9 percent of the vote.

"I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backwards thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico." ---John Hickenlooper

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies today released the results of an automated survey of 1,067 likely voters in the state of Colorado looking at the race for Governor. The findings show Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and former Congressman Tom Tancredo in a statistical tie. Among likely voters, Democrat John Hickenlooper has 44%, American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo has 43%, and embattled Republican candidate Dan Maes has 9% support. The generic “other candidate” has 2%, and only 2% responded as undecided. Since our Colorado Governor survey on August 25th, support for Dan Maes has plummeted from 27% to 9%, a...

Nothing says “sophisticate” quite like running down the rubes who live in the sticks, does it? After all, Barack Obama got elected after calling rural voters people “bitter” and who only “cling to guns or religion” through ignorance and fear. Via Mary Katharine Ham, John Hickenlooper offers an Obama-esque assessment of the rural and exurban voters in Colorado and assigns to them the same motivations that played into the murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming. The money quote occurs at about the two-minute mark in this interview

Go Tom, he could be one of the biggest surprises of the Year. Running under the Constitution Party banner and coming from behind to catch Hickenlooper.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes' second-biggest campaign expense is . . . Dan Maes and his family. The Evergreen businessman, who sold his credit-reporting company last year and has been running for office full time since March 2009, has been reimbursed $71,658 from his campaign. His daughter Jordan, his executive aide, has been paid $14,101 for work and some expenses, according to a Denver Post analysis. The total is nearly 30 percent of the $304,000 Maes has raised. His top expense is advertising, which totals $113,338. The amount of Dan Maes' expenses, which include mileage, travel, phone, food and drinks...

In Colorado's race for governor, Democrat John Hickenlooper's fundraising lead is growing. Records out Tuesday show Hickenlooper has raised a total of $3.7 million for his campaign -- $222,000 was collected in the last month. American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo has raised $682,000 overall; and Republican Dan Maes has collected $304,000. CBS4 political specialist Terry Jessup spent the day with the Tancredo campaign on Tuesday. Tancredo isn't worried about...

A supporter for Republican Dan Maes says he talked to two GOP county chairmen and a conservative blogger who said a wealthy donor was willing to pony up money if Maes would drop out of the governor’s race. Joe Harrington of Highlands Ranch said Monday that Maes rejected the offer, which is illegal under Colorado law. If Maes dropped out of the race, political observers believe Tom Tancredo, a former Republican running on a third-party ticket, stands a chance of beating the frontrunner, Democrat John Hickenlooper, for governor. Harrington said the county chairs and the bloggers separately conveyed the offer...

Here is a video explaining the true differences between how conservatives and liberals think. A must-watch for anyone trying to explain the political divide.

Denver, CO - America's Independent Party affiliates, in Colorado and across America, enthusiastically endorse 2010 ACP candidate Tom Tancredo for Governor of the Centennial State. Our people, principled, independent, Reaganite moral conservatives, believe that Tom is exactly what we're looking for in a Governor. In fact, we believe that if we don't soon begin to elect individuals of Tom Tancredo’s character and caliber, our beloved country will not survive much longer in liberty. Our situation is that serious, and that precarious. The first step to restoring our republic is a return to first principles. Tom Tancredo clearly understands the self-evident...

Tancredo celebrates rising poll numbers, mocks GOP Digg Tweet By John Tomasic 10/18/10 12:35 PM Candidate for governor Tom Tancredo is buoyed by the results of a Rasmussen poll taken Friday. The poll has Tancredo, a late-entry third-party candidate in the Colorado race, pulling within four points of Democratic frontrunner John Hickenlooper and swamping GOP Tea Party candidate Dan Maes. “They say I’m going to sink the Republican Party if I draw too many votes. That’s funny. There is someone in this race sinking the Republican Party but it’s not me. It’s the guy running as a Republican who’s polling...

He's not there yet, but it appears that former Congressman Tom Tancredo has made a race in Colorado. The Republican is running as an independent in the three-way race for Governor of that state. Despite the fact that Tancredo started around 10% in the polls, a weak Republican candidate has allowed him to surge into a solid second place. The race appears to be volatile, which may help Tancredo win over independent and disaffected voters. In this Republican wave year, he may be able to win over those who like his critical view of illegal immigration and enforcement. With two...