I keep seeing this same assertion about Tancredo from you on numerous threads, and I have a question.
Pat Buchanan has never won an elected office. Hes a pundit, a talk show host, a writer. His reform party is effectively non-existent.
Tancredo won his last election campaign as a Republican pretty handily I believe.
What's the quid pro quo for Tancredo? What does he get for being Pats "sock puppet"?
Have you ever gotten to know any Congressmen? I have interacted with a number of them. Some are worthy of a great deal of respect, some are empty suits with smiley faces, some are out right crooks. All have huge egos and dream of higher office.
Most do very well financially. (One very high level conservative leader cried on my shoulder when he first got elected because he was so poor he couldn't afford an apartment and was sleeping in the gym. A couple years ago he retired as a multimillionaire)
Tancredo is not one of your brightest house members. He proposed a bill imposing a 5% tax on transactions that primarily effected only one company, and crawfished when someone informed him that the company was located in his own district and was the largest employer in his district.
According to Tancredo, Karl Rove told him to never darken the door of the White House again. Only a fool would cross Karl Rove. Too many people respect Karl's opinions.
Whatever Tancredo's reason for hooking up with Buchanan, it was definitely a career killer.