"But why Tancredo allowed Buchanan to co-op him is beyond me."
Me too. Makes no sense.
That tells us volumes about Tancredo. He was a professional Libertarian, meaning that he was (is?) a kook.
He was running a think tank meaning that he was a professional fund raiser.
That makes him a natural match for Buchanan. Both are professional fund raisers who scam money from political kooks.
Want to run a test? Contribute to Tancredo's organization using a fake name and see how long it takes for you to receive a solicitation letter from Buchanan's organization address to the fake name. Then reverse it.
Mailing list are extremely valuable but are often used to defraud both the internal revenue laws and campaign finance laws.
Idle speculation. Buchanan's sister is involved with the Team Tancredo website, so the only reasonable conclusion is that Tancredo has been co-opted by her brother, so that Tancredo can run a third party campaign?
Tancredo has never shown any interest in third party politics. He steadfastly supported President Bush's reelection. Claims that Tancredo is plotting a third party excursion are flights of ad hominem fancy.
Pat Buchanan's Reform Party self-destruction and dabblings (and entry level anti-Semitism) have cost him greatly. Why would Tancredo suddenly do an about face into irrelevancy?
Bay Buchanan was Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon, and is well connected politically. Why wouldn't Tancredo utilize her connections? She supported her brother's campaign in 2000, but family members do things like that. Is it possible that she's interested in Tancredo's success for the simple reason that she, like most Americans, is opposed to coddling illegal aliens? Isn't that a rather more straightforward explanation than some steaming fantasy about Tancredo having been co-opted by her brother?