Tancredo considers White House bid

World Net Daily ^ | 3/28/2005

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Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., fresh from victory in three online presidential straw polls over formidibale candidates, told Joseph Farah's radio audience today he would run for president in 2008 if no other Republican candidate takes the border issue seriously.

"I'll tell you what," he said, "if no one else does, I will do it."

Tancredo is the head of the House Immigration Reform Caucus and has challenged his own party's president on the issue of insecure border and his proposed "guest worker" proposal.

Tancredo said he was encouraged by President Bush's recent meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox because the U.S. leader told his counterpart he would continue to push for more lenient immigration policies but would not guarantee they would be approved by Congress.

The Colorado congressman said he believes Bush was signaling defeat and giving permission to GOP dissenters to vote their conscience on the issue.

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LOL

[antiunion person]

So what if Tancredo is loved by the white supremistics. Isn't there a KKK member in Congress?? Don't forget, once a member of the Klan, always a member of the clan. There is no way out of the klan except by death.

[peyton randolph]

What's your point?

See post #70 for my point.

[Once-Ler]

If Tancredo was truly serious about immigration and the border, he would work with the President and other members in Congress to find a solution all sides could agree on.

Why work on a solution when the problem is making you famous? Tancredo is the far right version of Al Sharpton. He's gonna get fewer votes if he run for Prez.

It has always been All or Nothing with the far right. They don't understand why incrimentalism works. They don't understand why they can't have everything now. After all THEY demand it now. How many times does the rest of America have to vote out their heroes and elect rats for them to figure it out?

[Lori675]

Tancredo someone who has guts, unlike the coward who runs Florida.

[servantboy777]

Don't know much about the rest of his policy stances other than the border issue. I like what he says.

Problem is that I'm starting to see less and less difference between republicans and democrats. I'm certainly starting to lose confidence in Bush. I like him, but he just appears too liberal and too globalist for me.

People like Allen Keyes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot and the like are made out to look like nut cases, when in reality they have preached the very things that are becoming real big problem issues today--noone listened back then.

I really feel that the Pub's and Dem's alike try real hard to make these candidates look bad. Tancredo is no acception--just wait. He will be labeled as anti-trade, racist, anti-immigration, nationalist, protectionist and so on.

The real power is in corporate America. Ya know, I try to be a good capitalist, but I'm seeing corporations and the powerful people running them in a totally deferent light.

Greed. plain and simple. Globalism, allowing illegal immigrants, shipping jobs overseas with little protection for the American worker, huge compensation packages for execs--it's all about money and greed.

Enron, Tyco, MCI, Author Anderson, Imclone and the rest prove my point.

Congress back in the 80's had an air of protecting the American worker somewhat. Those days are over. My point, Neither Republicans or Dem's are trying to protect the sovereignty of this country and when someone stands up and acts the least bit interested, they are marginalized.

Hell, you have patriotic Americans down on the border right now trying help stem the flow of illegals and Bush labeled them as vigilantes. You have Bush's butt buddy, Vicente Fox spewing his anti-American crud and Bush just plays right along.

[WRhine]

However the dems will slam him, as they slam everyone who gets in their commie/socialist/liberal/crackpot ways.

No dem will slam him harder than the establishment Republicians during the primaries, if Tom decides to run. If Tom can survive that, he can survive anything.

[Tench_Coxe]

He'll need to stand for more than opposing open borders. But its a start.

[servantboy777]

Incrementing our nation down the ol tubes. The majority of our manufacturing base is now gone. Ross Perot once said that we were going to become a service nation. We would be at a competitive disadvantage in the years to come, well well well, guess what--he just happened to be correct. The proverbial huge sucking sound of jobs leaving this country.

Ross Perot didn't get where he is by being an idiot or a nut case as the Pub's and Dem's made him out to be. He was and is an American success story, a patriot who set out on his own to rescue Americans being held captive in the middle east twenty some odd years before all this terrorist stuff began.

[wku man]

Great...I'm tired of politics, anyway. I'm ready for leadership, which is what we'll get from Tancredo. The security risk posed by our wide open borders and coastlines is our biggest problem, even though it doesn't rate the coverage as Michael Jerko**yourson and Robert Blake. If he doens't get the Pubbie Nomination, I'll write him in.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[bowzer313]

Tancredo might as well run. I sure as hell won't vote for that chickens**t Jeb Bush!!

[mjtobias]

"If he doens't get the Pubbie Nomination, I'll write him in."

So do I - for our great American patriot Tom Tancredo.

[Liberator]

"Tancredo ain't possible."

Why not? Because he's not a Globalist-RINO??

[dagnabbit]

Outstanding news

Agreed. Tancredo running in the primary would be nothing but good news for the race, whether he got the nomination or not.

Who knows, perhaps he could even get elected, and finally end the dereliction of duty of this unending Clinton administration.

[Richard Kimball]

I'm a one item guy in this next election .. .fix the boarders!!!

I'm a one issue guy in the next election...learn to SPELL borders. Other than that, I agree with you 100%. As to whether or not he's electable, I don't even know what he looks like. From House of Rep to WH seems like a big jump, but border security is a hot button item to a lot of people. Who'd heard of Bill Clinton four years before he was elected? I have no idea on Tancredo, other than his name looks like a typographical error.

[mjtobias]

>>"Tancredo ain't possible."

>Why not? Because he's not a Globalist-RINO??

Great response. No neocon puppet master to manipulate him.

[Finalapproach29er]

Buchanan was talking about this in 1991-92, yet you put him down despite his prescience.

[Liberator]

"No neocon puppet master to manipulate him [Tancredo]."

Yep...

So now we await the GOP infight between the neocon-RINO-Globalists, and the conservative-America-First-sovereignists.

Option "A" has proven to be a one tick away from Demoncrat.

[WRhine]

It has always been All or Nothing with the far right.

It might seem that way to an open border leftist who thinks Republicans that eternally compromise with the likes of Ted Kennedy in the Democratic Party are somehow politically astute. The only incrementalism that has resulted from the go along, get along status quo crowd in the GOP has been towards even Bigger Government and the decimation of our sovereignty and industry.

America needs a 180 degree change in direction, not more of the same.

[dread78645]

> Tancredo or Paul otherwise I'll vote NO!

That's a strange combination - aren't they polar opposites on the immigration issue?

No. Ron Paul believes that if we eliminate the social giveaways, immigrants won't flock north to the US.

Paul opposes giving citizenship to anchor babies, green-cards to the adult relatives of immigrants, the visa lottery, and Bush's (almost) amnesty.

Where Paul differs from Tancredo is Paul against using the military for border control because that is a civilian function.