No surprise — or regrets — about Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., reportedly ending his presidential campaign. He never got out of the low, low single digits in polls, and lacked his congressional colleague Ron Paul’s fundraising magnetism. Still, one wonders if the top GOP issue would have been illegal immigration without his candidacy. As he put it during one debate, “all I’ve heard is people trying to out-Tancredo Tancredo.†Unfortunately, there seems little chance that rhetoric will end with Tancredo’s campaign.
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This is one Republican who I could have given a TINY consideration of support.
Illegal immigration should be our number one concern.
Glad it’s tiny, JR: IIRC, the guy once suggested–seriously–that the perfect response to a 2nd terrorist attack would be to bomb Mecca.
He’s a full-on nutcase.
Tancredo has assisted America. Solving the open borders situation would have saved Americans Trillions of dollars.Food For Thought A LINE IN THE SANDOn Senator Mc Cauls 10th District Texas Website Iraq’s Learn Spanish Before Crossing to America.
Well Rhonda it seems that your concern for our open borders, falling economy, dumbing down of public schools, bankrupted hospitals, stretched social services and drug problems have been compromised by the flash and glitter of the lying candidates at the top of the campaigne sell-outs. Good luck, I hope you are not next to lose your job after you vote for one of the many winning poll losers !
Well good grief J.R. I didn’t think there was anything I could ever agree with you on, have you ever surprise me with that statement! Now I’m completely confused about what’s going on in your head. But, I’m not going to spend much time trying to figure that out as I wish to retain my own sanity.Merry Christmas,
…..the perfect response to a 2nd terrorist attack would be to bomb Mecca.
He’s a full-on nutcase.
Posted by: Rage | December 20, 2007 at 01:49 PM
Damn, I knew there was reason to like the guy! I would disagree with bombing Mecca for the second attack. I’d be more in favor of Medina…just to show we’re serious. On the THIRD attack, I would be all for nuking Mecca. Make it a “shining” example (at night for the next 10,000 years).
It’s not Ron Paul’s fundraising magnetism, it’s the American People wanting their country back.
It’s the Zionists deciding which parts of our constitution we can keep, which wars will we fight, how many of our soldiers will die and how much of our money actually belongs to the them, the Zionists { certainly not the money to fix our bridges }.
Ron Paul is the only candidate running for the presidency from either Party, which doesn’t belong to the Zionists.
There’s your groundswell of support.
If illegal immigration is so high on the list for the GOP voters, why has “reduced tuition for illegals” Huckabee able to surge to the top? There are other issues that are driving GOP support for the various candidates.
Tancredo brought to light an issue that a lot of GOP (and many Dem) voters care about. However, that fact is lost in Rhonda’s blatantly anti-Tancredo thread intro.
Hell, I am for nuking Mexico…Oh, wait…they are all over here….
So Ed, your against the Jews??
Ed, your ranting about zionists isn’t going to help us get Ron Paul elected.
I truly believe he is the best guy for the job and I’m glad you like him too, but the kind of things you are saying here just turn people off. You pseudo anti-semitic junk doesn’t help the cause.
Ed,Has Ron Paul said openly that he does no support an American-Israeli alliance?
Pardon me if I have not done my research on him.
I wonder which Native American tribe Tancredo is a member of?
Notice how the troll strays away from the subject, tries to direct traffic toward religion and then attacks the messenger.
They’ve had a lot of practice…
{ Zionism is secular }
Notice how “Ed” avoids using words he knows the meaning of….
He’s had a lot of practice…
Same old same old.
Gee, I wonder who made the decision to have Ron Paul visit “Meet The Press” on the worse day for viewing so close to Christmas?
Ron who?
Ron Paul is America and it’s understandable how you Zionists would consider him such a threat.
But, not to worry, you’ll be getting a fair trial before the hanging.
Once again, Ed. Not helping.
Rhonda
“Unfortunately, there seems little chance that rhetoric will end with Tancredo’s campaign”
Rhetoric? Are you saying it’s not a legitimate issue? How arogant and bigoted of you. It’s issue number ONE with many people, however upsetting you may find that fact.
Yes, Rhonda, the issue of illegal immigration would have been and will be a political issue irregardless of individual political candidates. People all over the country and in all levels of government are figuring out how much of a drain illegal immigrants have become to our resources all over the country – not just the border states. Tom Tecredo didn’t invent the issue and he wasn’t the first to define it as a problem. The issue of illegal immigrants from our southern neighbor has been boiling in the country’s political schema for awhile. It’s now just bubbling to the service.
Time for another of J R’s ideas as to addressing illegal immigration.
Why don’t we just invade and conquer Mexico?
By ENCOURAGING their people to violate our border, they have committed a classic act of war. We’d certainly be within our rights to respond.
They can’t have much for a military. We could take them out in a week.
Then we could get about the business of FIXING the corruption there so that Mexico better takes care of its people.
Oh I forgot. No small number of Republicans would like for us to have the same sort of set up Mexico has.
I think the reason Jews have had so many problems over the past couple thousand years is because they call themselves the “Chosen People”. Sound kind of familier, like hitler calling the Aryans the master race. Beside that I don’t have a problem with them. Just wish they would drop, the “Chosen People” Slogan, sounds a little elitist in my opinion.
It comes from Deuteronomy in the Old Testament:
“For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”
Rhonda:
Your viewpoints on just about everything merely attest to the fact that 85% of the mainstream media are raging ultra-liberals.
Have you ever had a thought that wasn’t merely an echo of the liberal mantra?
What blog you been reading there Jim?
Rhonda is regularly seen with a “lost my bloomers!” right wing.
As a person who votes Republican 63% of the time (I actually keep track), I think immigration is issue #122 on my list of priorities, and the Republican Party is going to be in the minority for a generation the way it is racing to see who can be the most mean-spirited in pandering to the nativist, often-racist crowd that simply hates Hispanics and needs a convenient scapegoat. As Tom Tancredo’s lack of support shows, the single issue immigrant hating voters don’t amount to anything in the polls, though they do make a lot noise on newspaper blogs, and have champions in talk radio and TV.
Why look, as I live and breathe it’s the old anti-Semite Ed Freidmann (whose real name is probably Mohammad bin UglyCamel.
Well we will perhaps see this session. Starting in January there will be new laws addressed that match along the lines of the new Oklahoma and Arizona laws on illegals being here in Kansas. This should keep things stirred up for a while. Especially the KC Star blog. They are even more pro open borders up in KC and are even crazier around the edges then WE board.
Even though the public are pro tough on business and arrest the business leaders the papers are all both the usual Marxist left and want to give it all away to whoever stops by.
But the new Oklahoma law is working great and with the Section 287g training given to the Tulsa police dept. has resulted in a drop of an estimated 25,000 illegals in Tulsa alone. Has helped gangs and schools out immensley.
See how much fun it is to get installed here, its only abut 15 pages long. Download and read the Oklahoma bill – called “Oklahoma Tapayer and Citizen Protection Act”
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/05/oklahoma-governor-signs-immigration.php
I would contact your rep right away, Im hearing there is a big push from the citizenry to get this done. All the states around us either have or will have and they will drive them all here if we are not careful. Missouri is getting ready to start cracking heads and Oklahoma already has along with Arizona and Colorado.
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rfl, Ron Paul is against the U.S. being in foreign entanglements, they tend to just get us into others troubles.Israel does not truly need our help or protection, crap we may need their someday! Ed is against Israel mainly because of their actions concerning the Palestine issue. Most just confuse his opinion as the straw man of being anti-Semitic. He may hate the Israelis but not because they are Jews.
“Ron Paul is America and it’s understandable how you Zionists would consider him such a threat.But, not to worry, you’ll be getting a fair trial before the hanging“.Posted by: Ed Friedemann
Ed I have to agree with Brian, that is not helping! LOL
Hell JR they would greet us with flowers and as liberators!
“Gentle Ben”–
Uh, yeah, you weren’t so gentle in your previous posts.
Google, folks, google.
“Ron Paul is America and it’s understandable how you Zionists would consider him such a threat.But, not to worry, you’ll be getting a fair trial before the hanging“.Posted by: Ed Friedemann
Ed I have to agree with Brian, that is not helping! LOL
But it got your attention, though didn’t it?
Actually it’s not that far fetched, considering the Zionists are well passed a billion war crimes? { 60 years }
And the Zionists are now the number one arms dealer in the world. They get the munitions from the US for free and sell all that death and destruction worldwide.
They’ve made a “killing,” so to speak…
Yes…
Ron Paul is America.
The America, which Americans miss so terribly. An America without the fake misnomer “terrorism” An America of honesty and common decency and moral clarity.
An America without Zionist depravity, or a country without justice or where the lie is not revered or always justified.
Americans miss their country.