and thankfully he will NEVER have his finger the button. Are you really as naive to think he would wait? I am not.
Glad he has nuked his own Presidential ambitions. He wouldnt even make it to Iowa as it is and a 3rd party candidacy will not go anywhere either, just as Perouted or Badnarik.....
As I said earlier, Tancredo isn't so full of himself to think he would actually get the nomination. He has said he would consider a run for the purpose of trying to inject conservative values into the debate over immigration and border control, which in turn would be for the purpose of holding the eventual nominee accountable on the issue.
Despite the issue at hand with the nuke remarks, all but the pro-open borders crowd shoud be able to appreciate that, because we've seen how horrible Bush is on these issues, and there is no reason to expect McCain to be any better. Maybe someoe else who has a shot at the nomination will take a position that at least resembles conservative values.
To answer your question about whether he would wait if he were President; yes, I do think he would, because he did not suggest preemptively nuking Muslim holy sites.
And lets be honest. The reason Tancredo elicits such passionate responses is because he has dared challenge Bush and the party on immigration. That makes him a hero to some, while others think of him as a traitor for daring to point out how bad Bush is on immigration. They apparently think he is going to scare away voters who in truth would never vote Republican anyway.
That he has supported Bush on just about everything else, including tax cuts, the war on terrorism, Soc Security reform, and judicial picks( though obviously he has no vote on them) apparently carries no weight with those who would tar and feather him for his immigration/borders dissent.
Again;
http://www.acuratings.org/statedelegation.asp?state=co