[FairOpinion]

The Dems and MSM is playing this for everything it's worth.

Tancredo should have kept his mouth shot in the first place, his "clarification" of his stand is NOT helping and I am sure he knows that.

[FairOpinion]

I highly recommend reading this excellent analysis:

Assault on DeLay is All About Politics

http://www.conservative.org/columnists/lessner/04132005rl.asp

"Democrats despise DeLay because he is a tough, principled conservative and an effective majority leader who is successful in driving the Republican agenda though the House. Unable to win elections, and bereft of anything positive to offer the country, the Democrats and their Soros-funded allies have become little more than a pack of seething scandalmongers."

[Mo1]

Tancredo said in the statement that he believes "that all of the charges against Tom DeLay I have seen to date lack merit."

But yet wants him to step down?

Tancredo is an idiot

[Cincinatus' Wife]

They can stick it!

[MisterRepublican]

Tancredo is an idiot. What does he figure to gain by joining the Democrats in their smear campaign against DeLay? Maybe he's competing with Shays for McCain's job as Republican traitor.

[MrDem]

With useful idiots like Tancredo, who needs enemies? How on earth can this guy hand up on a silver platter, more ammo for the dems and MSM?!!!!! Not a team player.

[Morgan in Denver]

Calling Tancredo an idiot isn't helping, and most know the Washington Post will slant coverage to suit their political agenda. I suggest holding your fire until these comments are understood better. Tancredo was alone in the House on the seriousness of immigration issues when everyone else sat on the sidelines. Eating our own is just what the Democrats want us to do.

[Liberty Valance]

"If he chose to resign as majority leader until these matters are resolved, that's probably not the worst idea."

Tancredo will now officially "Do Anything" to grab Natl. spotlight. All that Tancredo for Prez talk has gone straight to his head. No thanks.

[Truth29]

Shut-up Tom. You are in the bottom of a hole.

[Faraday]

Tancredo saw what the media did with Shays' comments. He can't claim ignorance. This is a major blow to his "conservative" credentials.

[OldFriend]

I called Tancredo's office and told them I considered Tancredo a traitor. That he should have kept to his own issues and I thought Tancredo was only annoyed that DeLay was getting more publicity than he was.

I was furious and his aide knew it!

[conservativecorner]

Tom needs to stay on point regarding illegal immigration, and let DeLay handle these trumped up charges without interference from his own party.

[mewzilla]

Tancredo got any family and/or friends on the payroll?

[wny]

The republicans are pathetic.

[Cboldt]

Any reaction to yesterdays report, particularly the "stupidly" word attributed to Tancredo?

But Tancredo said that from a personal perspective, DeLay has handled the ethics issue 'stupidly.'

[crz]

I am going to vote for some other party this next time around. The G'Dammed Republicans have lost any guts they had and the ones who do have guts are slapped by the greasy back handers like Tornado Tom.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Tancredo should shut up until he figures out which team he's on.

[Dog Gone]

Tancredo is either a genius or a fool. He just made an enemy out of Tom DeLay, so unless DeLay steps down, Tancredo can forget any chance for a leadership position or any choice committee assignment.

I vote for "fool."

[NRA2BFree]

I'm REALLY mad at Tancredo over this. He can forget any thoughts he had of running for President, as far as I'm concerned. I personally will never support him. We finally get a Republican who is kicking RAT butts, and this jerk wants him to step aside? Give me a break!! Instead of saying he should step aside, he should have been going after the RATS who have done the same thing. The Republican Party is leaving me very fast. It's filled with wimps and idiots!

[WOSG]

We are SO MUCH THE CHUMPS for playing into the MSM's game here ... look at this. Tom's a fool, traitor, someone says they wont vote for the GOP, etc... all this back-stabbing and back-biting over some minor quote a non-party-leader Congresscritter and alleged publicity hound makes.

Who cares what he said? BFD. Last I checked Tancredo was one of 230 republicans in the House, and his comment was only that stepping aside wasnt the worst thing to do. No, its not; handing quotes to the MSM that they can use to divide the party would be even worse. Dividing the party in two over this issue is worse. As we can see.

DeLay is not going anywhere nor should he. The attacks against Delay are wholly political. They accuse DeLay of doing things that dozens of current Democrat Congress-critters are doing as well. Pot, kettle, black.
They are stirring up allegations, and YET the Democrats refuse to let the ethics committee even sit in session, so these allegations are not treated within the proper procedures. The Dems know they have weak real cases, so their real ploy is to use Tom DeLay as a partisan Pinata. I know this personally because I saw it in action in the 2004 cycle here in Austin, TX. The Dems had negative campaign pieces based on DeLay and the local (Dem) DA's TrimPac grand jury investigation (which has generated plenty of suspicious publicity but not a single conviction).

The Democrats are trying to turn DeLay into a political issue, their ethics issues are hollow PR. We know it. The House GOP knows it. Tom Tancredo knows it, he said as much.

The Liberals in the press are laughing themselves silly at how easy it is to tease a quote out of a politician that they exagerrate into a party split.

Easy.

It's like throwing chum into a shark tank.

Congressmen Tancredo was used by MSM and made some comments he likely already regrets. Ignore it and move on, it means nothing.