Colo. Rep. Tancredo flexes political muscle at fund raiser

Sierra Vista Herald/Review ^ | 19 January 2004 | Nate Searing

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It was a great event. This article does not capture the electricity that was in that room when Tancredo spoke. Oh my...he's got many supporters down here in Cochise County.

Plus, my comments made the front page again. Woo-hoo!

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[Dante3]

Tancredo is one of the few politicians I can respect. He puts American first.

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[Digger]

Tancredo is one of the few politicians I can respect. He puts American first.

I agree. He'll be my write-in on election day. GW has no idea of what he has done to his conservative base and that middle group on the fence. I see he is down 10pts over this & I eally don't see it coming back that much. If ever there was a guy to fire it would be Rove. Possibly Rove has nothing to do with this as it is out of his hands & totally in the elites. Whatever, this has turned off many of my friends who were a lock for GW. My guess is that they will just sit out. Throwing a small bone out to us won't change things this time.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Same here, more and more of us will be sitting this election out.

Don't pee on my head and tell me it's raining.

[DumpsterDiver]

Plus, my comments made the front page again. Woo-hoo!

Does that make you the darling of the Arizona press, the man to interview, the guy with the always quotable quotes, etc.? ;^)

Wish I could've been there.

For those that haven't read it, here is a related thread:

After Action Report: Tom Tancredo Returns to Cochise County
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1060709/posts

[Zipporah]

Tancredo is a good man and gives a voice to those that see that the proposal is bad policy.

[Spiff]

Does that make you the darling of the Arizona press, the man to interview, the guy with the always quotable quotes, etc.? ;^)

No. It does help if you corner the reporter, who had just written a report quoting you the day before, praise him profusely, and then give a few off-the-cuff quote-worthy comments while he has his notepad out.

[Ahban]

Here in Arkansas, the local GOP arranged to have him as a speaker, and the word is that Bush and Rove got the Arkansas GOP to lean on him so heavily that they postponed the event, presumably to a time that he cannot make it.

I am glad to see that not all buckle under.

[Zipporah]

I have been doing quite a bit of research on the history of immigration policy and found this. I thought you might find the following interesting in light of the current immigration proposal; taking into consideration the Reconquista revolutionaries. This is a quote from the Congressional Record during the debates on immigration in 1953, I think it bears repeating (I inserted Mexico in italics) :

"....we in the United States today hard-core, indigestible blocs which have not become integrated into the American way of life, but which, on the contrary are its deadly enemies. Today, as never before, untold millions are storming our gates for admission and those gates are cracking under the stain. The solution of the problems of Europe and Asia (insert Mexico)will not come though a transplanting of those problems en masse to the United States... I do not intend to become prophetic, but if the enemies of this legislation succeed in riddling it to pieces, or in amending it beyond recognition, they will have contributed more to promote this nation's downfall than any other group since we achieved our independence as a nation." Senator Pat McCarran

[Zipporah]

Make that "....we there are in the United States...

[Missouri]

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[SandRat]

Great Read.

[spodefly]

I wonder if Tancredo knows how many of us plan to write him in for President this November.

[PRND21]

The Internal Security Act, popularly named for Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, an aging hack who, in fact, commandeered the legislation from an earlier version by congressmen Karl Mundt and (of all people) Richard Nixon argued for the fingerprinting and registration of all "subversives" at large in the United States.

Link

[Zipporah]

Interesting wording "an aging hack"?.. supposedly a scholarly review? An attempt to discredit the man rather than his words?

[PRND21]

LEHMAN ATTACKS RACIST PHILOSOPHY INHERENT IN McCARRAN (D)-WALTER ACT

[Dog Gone]

Without weighing in on the immigration issue or any other substantive issue, the fact that Tancredo assembled a crowd of 200 is not what I'd call "flexing political muscle."

[Zipporah]

In reading the link.. sounds strangely familiar "This philosophy is a xenophobic philosophy. It is a racist philosophy. It is a philosophy of fear, suspicion, and distrust of the foreigners outside our country, and of the aliens within our country." The tactics used today against those who are truly concerned about the future of the US.. labelling to muzzle. Thanks for the link it pretty much confirmed my suspicions about the tactics that are used today are just ditto marks. Labelling to muzzle was an effective tactic. Sorry doesn't work.

Now attempt to address McCarrin's words taking into consideration the ties that the Atzlan supporters have with socialists.