Posted on 11/06/2017 8:44:59 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
Tom Tancredo is back. As Colorado’s gubernatorial primary fills with an ever-larger set of ambitious Republican chancers, the logic of a Tancredo comeback based on name recognition becomes obvious. Especially when the GOP seems to have moved in his direction since he left.
From one angle, Tancredo looks like a John Wycliffe to Donald Trump’s Martin Luther, the morning star of the Republican Reformation. Tancredo put forward some of the same complaints about the Republican party and tried to weaponize his plainspokenness about them. He emphasized the same issues in the same combative way. He just did it first.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453406/tom-tancredo-colorado-gubernatorial-race
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The election of a President who made our border laws a centerpiece of his campaign has changed that. Donald Trump has permanently changed the "overton window" on the issue, and for the better - paving the way for the election of people like Tancredo to governorships and the House and Senate in years to come.
I’ve always like a lot about Tancredo. Regardless, he is light years better than Chickenpooper.
I like “Tommy the Tank” Tancredo!
He’s got my vote!
I hope he does well.
Would that make Colorado red?
Thanks for posting.
Gotta send Tom some $$$, he’s a hero who needs it.
Ten years ago, most Republicans weren’t talking about the best way to keep illegal immigrants out and how to deport those who are here. They were joining the Democrats in debating the best way to “reform” (liberalize) immigration laws and grant amnesty to the illegals already here. Consequently, Tom Tancredo and others like him were marginalized by the GOP establishment.
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The Cheap Labor Express had a lock on most state GOP and the RNC and only offered us candidates that backed open borders/amnesty.
The illegal alien inundation was as intentional as the marginalization of Tancredo and others like him was.
They did not want us to have a choice about it.
It had already been decided by GHW Bush that we were going to be a bilingual English/Spanish speaking Hispanic country even if the citizens did not want that.
Protecting those 30 million people that they invited here from our laws is THE most important thing to the NeverTrumpers.
Tancredo’s topnotch.
When Karl Rove tells you you’re not welcome in the White House because you won’t fall in line with Jorge Bush’s various amnesties, you know you’re on the right track.
Wikipedeia: “Tancredo’s outspoken advocacy for immigration reform, and particularly his criticism of President George W. Bush’s border security controls, reportedly made him persona non grata in the Bush White House.[96] According to Tancredo, he and Bush’s political adviser, Karl Rove, got into a “screaming match” after Tancredo claimed that “if the nation suffered another attack at the hands of terrorists able to skirt immigration laws, the blood of the people killed” would be on Bush’s and Congress’ hands. Rove responded by calling Tancredo “a traitor to the party” and “a traitor to the president,” and warned him to never “darken the doorstep of the White House.”[96]”
Karl Rove was probably the most malign influence in the Bush administration, at least on domestic policy. Among his other great "contributions" to America was convincing Bush to keep subsidizing Fanny May and Freddie Mac, so as not to alienate poor "minority" voters. This little piece of political pandering was a major contribution to the 2008 economic collapse.
So yes, being on Karl Rove's enemies list is practically a badge of honor.
Read here: George W and Carl Rove.
Until 2016, party hacks, crypto-liberal internationalists, and the scions of political dynasties were the types who called the shots in the Republican Party. Not any more.
The question is, can Tanc win in the increasingly purple state of CO.
Tancredo should think about relocating to Arizona and running for Jeff Flake or John McCain's Senate seat for the next term. If he wins the primary, he's essentially guaranteed to win the general election in very red Arizona.
Unfortunately, I think he'd be up against an open primary where Democrats vote for the most liberal Republican on the ticket knowing that the state is going to send a Republican to the Senate regardless.
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