No I do not work for Tancredo.
So let me get this straight. Tancredo holds views on immigration that are much more in line with most Americans, and w/o question w/ most conservatives, yet he is being disloyal to conservatives? I guess his near-perfect conseravtive voting record means nothing to you. Again, I guess his support for and loyalty to Bush and the party on tax cuts and Iraq mean nothing to you.
He dares publically disagree with the President over the President's bad immigration policies so we should throw him to the dogs, right? Well that bodes well for conservativism. What about other social issues on which the GOP leadership decides to abandon its base? Must we also all eagerly embrace racial preferences now because the President has?
And what lies did he tell? Is it true or not that the White House wanted the anti-illegal immigration measures removed? If Bush weren't so far out in left field on immigration he could see that these provisions would go over well with most Americans. Yeah, they'd be demonized by the Dems and radical groups like La Raza, but if you calmly make it known to Americans that the bill would help deport illegal aliens, and deprive them of other rewards like drivers licenses then Americans would support the bill. Those are popular ideas, and they could only do Bush good if he embraced them.
That doesn't mean much when this close to an election his is openly opposing Bush. That stinks.
Just to list a few:
1. President Bush is playing politics with national security.
2. President Bush is proposing amnesty.
3. President Bush has adopted an "open border" policy
4.President Bush has done nothing to secure our borders.
As for your assumption that the majority of people agree with Tancredo, you are wrong. Most conservatives and Republicans agree with President Bush, not Tancredo. Buchanan/Tancredo and other anti-Mexican groups made the Kolbe primary a referendum on the anti-Mexican agenda. Tabcredo's Team America organization (chaired by Babe Buchanan) put it's entire weight behind Kolbe's opponent and lost 2 to 1.
Buchanan's swarms knew in their hearts that he would be elected president in 2000 because they thought his overtly racist message would strike a chord in the majority of voters who were afraid to tell pollsters their real intentions. He got less than 1/4th of 1%. Today those same people believe that the vast majority of Americans are secretly prejudiced against Mexicans. They are wrong.
Intelligent Americans understand the need for increasing labor in an expanding economy. Intelligent Americans understand that if American companies can't find employees in the U.S. that they will have no choice but to move or outsource overseas. If a company closes, outsources or moves overseas all of it's employees suffer, not just the 10% who may be out of status. You would probably think twice if your job was in jeopardy.