Posted on 04/25/2005 10:47:57 PM PDT by american007
No to Condoleezza Rice.
No to Newt Gingrich.
No to Haley Barbour.
That's what I've been saying in recent commentaries about presidential candidates for 2008.
Naturally, some readers are asking me for an alternative.
I've thought about this a great deal.
Hillary Clinton is likely to be the choice of the Democratic Party. She is a dangerous demagogue who could, as president for four years, complete the destruction of this country begun during the eight years her husband held office.
She must be stopped.
While I have no faith in the Republican Party, given its pitiful track record since grabbing the presidency and control of Congress, it probably represents the only chance to limit the damage the federal government is wreaking on our country ever day.
My preference would be a new party. My preference would be to build an alternative to the Republican-Democratic political trap. But time is short. I don't see this happening in 2008.
Unless a person with charisma, money and convictions – someone like Mel Gibson – arose to the challenge of an independent bid for the presidency in 2008, like it or not, we will be faced with a choice between a Democrat and a Republican.
Therefore, freedom-loving, security-conscious Americans need to rally behind a Republican candidate of principle and courage – someone who will speak to the core issues facing us all today.
In my humble opinion, there is one man who fills that bill – Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado.
He's a maverick. He marches to the beat of his own drummer. He's not afraid to criticize members of his own party – including his president. And that's what I love about him.
There is no one else in Congress or in national public life who has provided better leadership on the No. 1 national-security issue confronting the United States – the border and immigration policy.
Tancredo's prescription isn't radical – though it might seem that way based on the reaction of the Big Media and establishment politicians in both parties. What Tancredo is advocating are common-sense principles being implemented in nations all over the world – including in supposedly "progressive" Europe.
It's real simple. A nation without borders ceases to be a nation. That is the threat we face with 20 million illegal aliens already here and more pouring over the border every day.
I believe this is such a hot-button issue with the American people that Tancredo, a distinguished but otherwise obscure member of the House of Representatives could actually win.
But even if he doesn't win, it is imperative that the issues he raises get a national debate before 2008. The Minuteman Project has thrust the issue before the American people. All over the country, local and state officials are taking action against illegal aliens because they recognize the threat they pose to our freedom and our security. Tancredo has done an admirable job winning over many colleagues in the House.
However, it may take a national political campaign to save this country from the looming disaster illegal immigration and open borders represent.
That's why I am urging Tom Tancredo to make the run. I simply don't know of any other candidate in a position to make the case effectively.
Will he do it?
On my nationally syndicated radio show, he went so far as to say he would if no other candidate emerged to champion this issue.
We need to encourage Tom Tancredo to gear up, raise the money he needs to get his campaign going, start organizing. We need to let him know we will back him. And we need to mean it.
You may say, "Farah's it's only 2005. Why are you obsessing over the 2008 presidential race?" Because it takes planning to win. And I want America to win in 2008.
Tom Tancredo for president.
How do you like the sound of that?
I don't know, but Tancredo is a one hit wonder.
Denver bump for Tancredo for president!!
Tancredo is Buchannan's little puppet-protege.
"Tancredo is Buchannan's little puppet-protege."
Ben Ficklin is Bush's little puppet-protege
Exactly...
Maybe you can explain that bizarre relationship between Tom, Pat, and Bay at Team America PAC?
President Tancredo! Now I could warm up to that title rather quickly if no other better qualified conservative candidate is willing to step up to the plate and take this issue on in a full frontal manner as Rep. Tancredo has been doing so courageously for some time now. Certainly the possibilities are there for the taking as this situation is driving middle America into third world nation status every day that our nations borders remain unsecured and illegal immigration out of control. I for one would certainly donate time and money to such an endeavor! My grandchildren's future deserve no less from me.
Trying to change the subject? Hijack the thread?
No. Why? Are you?
Review the replies, I stayed on topic. You are the one who is trying to change the subject.
"Maybe you can explain that bizarre relationship between Tom, Pat, and Bay at Team America PAC?"
I see no relationship bizarre or otherwise between Tom and Pat.I could find no reference to Pat at their website.
Bay is the co-chairman, she was Ronald Reagan's treasury secretary.
Do you somehow find guilt by (almost) association with Tom and Bay?
If so, why not guilt by association with Bush and the corrupt el presidente Fox?
Why is that?
Do you mean to say that Pat is not connected to Team America PAC? That TA PAC is Tom and Bay?
You have to try to malign me by saying that I am OBL. Countless times have stated that I oppose illegal immigration and support immigration reform, as do most Americans.
Your only argument is to call people names.
Very true. It is almost like one issue voters gave Bush a second term. There one issue was the Vietnam War.
That is refreshing news.
So who are you? A disruptor here just to start crap or one of the Tancredoites who has been banned before?
Yep and we can always count on a segment of FR to actually believe his crap.
Tancredo is nothing but an attention whore. His sellout of Tom Delay should prove that to anyone. Of course there are those who would blindly follow this guy straight off a cliff simply because he tells them what they want to hear.
Isn't that what you are asking us to do with Presidente Jorge and his Open Borders policy? Follow blindly off a cliff?
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