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f Newt Gingrich is a "policy wonk" as his friends proclaim, he is a very lazy one. He should have read the Kriebel Foundation's "Red Card Solution" before endorsing it as a non-amnesty solution to our immigration conundrum. The so-called Red Card Solution purports to create a new guest-worker program that solves all of our immigration problems. It strengthens border security, helps employers fill low-skilled jobs, bars criminals from participation and does all of this by "empowering the private sector" without use of taxpayer dollars. Maybe in the fine print it also wipes out the national debt. The problem is,...

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.

Former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo blasted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday, saying "he is finished," in a sign the GOP’s immigration hawks may soon flock to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Tancredo, who is currently supporting former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain for the nomination, also predicted Perry would not win the nomination. "I think he has imploded,” Tancredo said. “I think he is finished and I hope I helped kick some holes in his boat."

The Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people has been center stage in the news for a week now. That is understandable. What is truly bizarre is how people with no known connection to the shooting living thousands of miles from Arizona became the focus of the news coverage. The tea-party movement and talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are being asked by prominent pundits and Democrat leaders to "tone down the rhetoric" – when the shooter had no involvement whatsoever in conservative politics, grass-roots or otherwise. The shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, has a history...

I have long avoided bashing, talking about or even acknowledging Sarah Palin – with so many loquitas in my familia – I have a kind of empathy for her. And when you have a loquita mixed with a tonta factor then in my book they are hands off. I also believe Sarita has some Latino blood in her and that would make her familia. Yes, unlike her, I know my geography and know the difference between Wasilla and Oaxaca, but the stereotypical cultural similarities are undeniable. For starters Latinos are predominantly Christian and when words and logic and know how...

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...

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...

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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...

(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...

Yes, I strongly support Arizona-style laws to deal with a problem created by the federal government's lack of enforcement of our nation's immigration laws. Colorado has an estimated 200,000 or more illegal immigrants who drain over $1.6 billion in taxpayer dollars annually, according to a recent study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Colorado spends over $50 million alone on prosecuting and incarcerating criminal immigrants. Beginning in 2004, Arizona enacted a series of referenda and state laws on this matter, and SB 1070 is only the most recent. The most controversial part of the new Arizona law has been...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

For any who have been following the Colorado gubernatorial race it as been an ugly, disastrous, GOP bungle in the middle of what should only be a Republican year. The hand-picked GOP establishment candidate was former congressman Scott McInnis. I actually like the guy, but he tended to be a flip-flopper and the TEA party types didn’t trust him. He was opposed by no-name businessman Dan Maes who came out of nowhere riding the anti-establishment mood to emerge from the state convention with strong backing and a place on the primary ballot. Within just a few days the press launched...

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...

Tom Tancredo has moved within 4 percentage points of John Hickenlooper in the governor’s race, moving the race to “toss up,” according to the latest poll from Rasmussen Reports. Tancredo, who left the Republican Party to run on the American Constitution Party ticket, has 38 percent of the vote to Hickenlooper’s 42 percent. Support for Republican Dan Maes slipped again, and he now stands at 12 percent, Rasmussen reported. Ever since former GOP Congressman Scott McInnis’ candidacy imploded, Hickenlooper, the Democratic nominee and Denver mayor, has been in the lead in the governor’s race. However, he has generally remained in...

Is independent Tom Tancredo now becoming the de facto Republican candidate for governor of Colorado? He’s now moved to within four points of Democrat John Hickenlooper to turn the race into a toss-up. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Colorado finds Hickenlooper with 42% support, while Tancredo, the candidate of the American Constitution Party, earns 38% of the vote. Support for Republican Dan Maes continues to fall and now stands at 12%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

Nearly 12,000 registered voters in Colorado are listed as non-U.S. citizens, the secretary of state's office says. Gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo of the American Constitution Party has long campaigned for tougher immigration laws and enforcement. He said he was stunned by the non-citizen listings. "I want to know why they are not required to fill in the box. That in itself should be a felony," Tancredo said. State Rep. Kent Lambert, a Republican from Colorado Springs, said he and other Republicans have tried to change state law to require proof of citizenship -- which has been ruled legal by the...

The implosion of Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is becoming so apparent that it’s likely to leave the Republican nominee finishing in third place on election night. It’s an embarrassing and disheartening prospect for a party that just months ago believed it had an even shot at taking over the governor’s mansion in the Rocky Mountain State. A new Pulse Opinion Research survey of the three-way contest released Tuesday showed Maes capturing just 15 percent of the vote, 19 points behind American Constitution candidate Tom Tancredo, who launched a bid after he rendered the Republican unelectable. Democratic Mayor John Hickenlooper...

Colorado’s Republican gubernatorial candidate keeps stumbling, and the short-term winner is GOP-turned-American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo. A new Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday shows Tancredo, the bombastic former congressman known for his anti-immigration crusades, leading GOP nominee Dan Maes for the first time, 25 percent to 21 percent. It’s a dramatic switch from late August, when the firm’s poll showed Maes leading Tancredo 24 percent to 14 percent. But the long-term winner is the same: the Democratic nominee, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, who earned 46 percent support. That’s up from 36 percent in late August. The Maes-Tancredo reversal comes...

The announcement by former congressman Tom Tancredo that he'll run for governor of Colorado as a fringe party candidate follows a familiar pattern: established politicians turn to protest campaigns only after they've been disgraced, defeated and rejected by the mainstream. Their minor party dalliances represent a desperate, pathetic bid to keep the media spotlight, more than they reflect any practical agenda or commitment to ideological purity. In Tancredo's case, he remains tainted by his embarrassing 2008 presidential race. A full three years before the Iowa caucuses, he became one of the first Republicans to announce his intention to run, and...

Top Colorado Republicans peeled away from their party’s gubernatorial candidate Thursday, and a conservative national website urged Dan Maes to get out of the race. Maes, who defeated Scott McInnis last month for the GOP nomination for governor, resisted the urging that he abandon the race against Democrat John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver, and former Republican Tom Tancredo, who joined a third party.

By next Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, there could be a new Republican candidate for governor to replace current nominee Dan Maes. Names again are circulating as possible replacements, including the 2006 Republican candidate for governor, Bob Beauprez, and Jane Norton, the former lieutenant governor who recently lost the GOP Senate primary to Ken Buck. Although Maes said Wednesday he is no longer talking to the press, Republicans statewide could hardly contain their speculation that the rookie candidate might be replaced on the ballot by early next week. According to sources in the Colorado Republican Party and elsewhere interviewed...

Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper now holds a double-digit lead in the three-way race for governor of Colorado. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Colorado Voters finds Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver, with 43% support. Businessman Dan Maes, the winner of Tuesday’s Republican Primary, captures 31% of the vote, while American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo trails with 18%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are undecided. This is the first poll conducted since Maes won the Republican primary. It shows Maes with a bit more support than he had before...

The open feud between former Rep. Tom Tancredo and the Colorado Republican Party is intensifying in the wake of Tuesday’s Republican primary for governor. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/12/former-rep-tancredo-has-no-intention-of-quitting-colo-governors-race/#ixzz0wPi1du9b

Weeks of publicity for former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis over plagiarism appear to have melted his previously huge lead over Evergreen businessman Dan Maes in Colorado's Republican gubernatorial primary. The latest Denver Post/ 9News poll shows Maes with an edge of 43 percent to 39 percent over McInnis among 588 Republicans who have already voted in the primary or said they were likely to vote (the question had a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points). Maes trailed McInnis by 28 percentage points in a June poll. Dave Sarton II, 46, a Republican respondent from Colorado Springs, is among those...

Last week, when Gallup reported that fully half of Americans have "very little" or "no" confidence in Congress (the highest percentage for any institution since the pollster first asked this question in 1973), the news only underscored the scale of political opportunity for Republicans in the upcoming elections. But with this opportunity comes a profound responsibility. It's disturbing when the citizens of the world's greatest democratic republic feel so alienated from their government, and it's dangerous to America's long-term civic health. Even as Americans have been buffeted by the worst economic downturn since the Depression, they have been politically brutalized...

Leaders of 21 state Tea Party groups, representing about 10,000 people, said Sunday they have been betrayed by Tom Tancredo and in an open letter beseeched the former congressman not to run for governor as a third-party candidate. Tancredo has given Republican gubernatorial candidates until noon today to commit to pulling out of the governor's race after the primary if polls show the winner trailing Democrat John Hickenlooper. If that doesn't happen, Tancredo says, he'll run for governor as the American Constitution Party candidate.

Denver Post reporting: Former Congressman Tom Tancredo is in the race for Colorado governor, he said this morning. “I will officially announce at noon that I will seek the nomination of the constitution party,” Tancredo told The Denver Post. The Littleton Republican must file some papers with the Colorado Secretary of State and register as a member of the American Constitution Party, but then “he’s ready to go,” raising money, disclosing his platform and launching a website that is already put together.

Support for GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis is eroding among Republicans but he remains a viable candidate even after a plagiarism scandal, according to a new Denver Post poll. Twenty percent of registered Republican voters who supported McInnis prior to this week's allegations that he plagiarized previously published material said they will now back another candidate. Another 39 percent of those who originally supported McInnis said they will continue to stand behind him. However, when given a list of other Republicans who could be the party's nominee, 64 percent of GOP voters picked another candidate over McInnis. When asked who...

According to a new Denver Post poll, Republicans likely to vote in next month’s gubernatorial primary like former Congressman Tom Tancredo over scandalized former Congressman Scott McInnis, prompting Tancredo to tell the Post he’s “surprised and flattered” and that both McInnis and Evergreen businessman Dan Maes should get out of the race. “Neither can win the general election [against Democrat John Hickenlooper],” Tancredo told the Post after he beat out McInnis 29 percent to 19 percent, with 13 percent going to Maes. The other three choices for “strongest Republican gubernatorial candidate” – Jane Norton, Josh Penry and Bruce Benson –...

Former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo: "I believe this with all my heart, that the greatest threat to the United States today, the greatest threat to our liberty, the greatest threat to the Constitution, the greatest threat to our way of life, everything we believe in, the greatest threat to the country put together by the Founding Fathers, is the guy who is in the White House today."

Tom Tancredo -- a guy I've always thought very highly of, has a great idea... Tom Tancredo is a former five-term congressman from Colorado and 2008 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. He currently serves as chairman of the Rocky Mountain Foundation and co-chairman of TeamAmericaPac. Tancredo is the author of "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security." The next Arizona earthquake Posted: May 08, 2010 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 If opponents of the new Arizona law on illegal immigration think it is radical to actually enforce federal immigration laws, they are surely going to get...

Maybe there is some hope for civilization after all. At least, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seems a little more civilized this April than it did last April, when an out-of-control mob of protesters chased former U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo from the dais and off the campus. A subsequent speech later that month by another former congressman, Virgil Goode, resulted in seven arrests. The very idea of free speech seemed under attack. Monday night (April 26), Rep. Tancredo returned amidst a great deal of anticipation, invited by the same official student group as before, Youth for Western...

YWC president Kevin DeAnna has summed up pretty much everything I had to say about Tom Tancredo's appearance at UNC Chapel Hill. The media exaggerated the number of walkouts, Tancredo's speech was well received by the audience, and the action taken by SDS didn't live up to the hype. When the event was over, I was amazed that it had went off without incident. I hadn't expected such a cakewalk. A few dirty leftists showed up to protest our event. These crazy people exist on every college campus. According to Wikipedia, UNC Chapel Hill has 28,135 active students. I saw...

Here is video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs attacking former GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, saying "I won't respond to the general lunacy of someone like Tom Tancredo." Gibbs was asked about a remark Tancredo recently made. The reporter quoted Tancredo as having said, "The President should be sent back to Kenya," which brought about Gibbs' attack on Tancredo. Of course, both the reporter and Gibbs were not addressing what Tancredo actually said: "If his wife says Kenya is his [Obama's] homeland, why don't we just send him back?" Tancredo was referring to Michelle Obama's own statement made recently....

Mark Potok and the SPLC Think YOU ARE A RACIST! Read The New Report "Hate And Slander For Profit" An Exclusive From Digger's Realm Border Rancher Rob Krentz And Dog Found Shot To Death After Aiding Illegal Alien By Digger The body of Rancher Rob Krentz and his dog were found shot to death on his ranch. Krentz, who always was good-natured and willing to help people, had called in that he had found an illegal alien at one of his watering holes and was assisting him. That was the last that was heard from him before his body was...

Meghan McCain was blessed by birth -- she was born into a rich family, the daughter of a United States Senator/ex-presidential candidate. She was not, apparently, blessed by genetics, because she is one of the dumbest human beings walking the earth (and she didn't get her mom's good looks, either). The media adores her because she is a disgrace to her father; she adores herself because she's able to get attention by flaunting her boobs and her liberalism. She's like one of the simpering moron children of an old-style British lord -- she'll get marriage proposals simply by existing, but...

Re: "Don't fear rabble, Mr. Tancredo," Feb. 10 Vincent Carroll column. I was surprised to see Vincent Carroll's column attacking my suggestion that a degree of civic literacy should be a requirement for voting. He admonished me to "not fear the rabble." The basic problem of civic ignorance and the potential for "elected despots" was well understood by the nation's Founders. Many of their greatest innovations — checks and balances, the Senate elected by state legislatures, the separation of powers, staggered terms of office, and the independent judiciary — all were seen as instruments to help protect freedom (our "unalienable...

Here is video of Tom Tancredo talking with Alan Colmes and responding to critics of his comments at the Tea Party convention, where he suggested a "civic literacy test." (Video)Tancredo said, "to suggest that a civic literacy test is in itself a racist concept, well I think that's a racist idea, because are you assuming that the only people that would flunk this kind of a test would be minorities? There's no racial component to it, stupidity runs across color lines." Tancredo said he never thought about the "racial implications" of his statement, because "race is not an issue in...

ABC News' Huma Khan reports: Meghan McCain, the daughter of former GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and a self-described “progressive Republican,” today assailed the tea party movement. Sitting in as co-host on “The View” today, McCain said she has ideological differences with the movement. She specifically took aim at remarks by former Congressman Tom Tancredo, who suggested that people who voted for President Obama could not pass a basic civics literacy test. “People who would not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House... named Barack Hussein...