Posted on 08/02/2005 5:06:38 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Rep. Tom Tancredo hoped to overcome his recent controversy and get back onto his immigration message today, when he brought his traveling road show to South Carolina.
It's the third early presidential primary state Tancredo has visited this year, as he toys with the idea of a 2008 race.
Tancredo was scheduled to speak today night before hundreds of members of the Fraternal Order of Police at a hall outside Charleston.
He hopes to keep the topic to immigration reform, but he is still facing an international outcry over his recent comments suggesting the United States could target Muslim holy sites like Mecca if radical Islamic terrorists set off nuclear attacks in U.S. cities.
Some critics have demanded an apology or called for Tancredo to resign from Congress.
Tancredo has dismissed those calls and defended his comments to a Florida radio talk show host last month, saying he was merely thinking out loud about ways to deter a future terrorist attack.
Spokesman Will Adams said Tancredo planned to move past the controversy during the South Carolina trip. Tancredo has been visiting important presidential primary states in hopes of getting other would-be contenders to focus on his crusade against illegal immigration. If nobody does, he has said he might mount his own candidacy.
After Iowa and New Hampshire — two states Tancredo already has visited — South Carolina is considered the next make-or-break stop on the traditional presidential primary season calendar.
Tom Tancredo is not a bomb thrower, a rightwing wacko or some crazed nutcase. Tancredo is a patriotic American, a solid conservative and a loyal Republican. Anyone who thinks otherwise either doesn't know a thing about Tancredo or they just don't like conservatives. Conservatives that is, who have the cojones to speak out and disagree with the President on immigration reform. Conservatives who are fed up with the apologists and appeasers who regularly attack anyone who dares to object and criticize this administration for its failure to properly address the illegal immigration issue and how it relates to our national security.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
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Zack, Tancredo is not under consideration for the presidency of Harvard. However, he has more than defended his remarks, which you misconstrue and take from context, in re Mecca, etc. In explaining them, he has refused to apologize, and IMHO, rightly so.
The sensitivity of Muslims is not an issue in solving the problems of terrorism. You will also notice that, perhaps and hopefully in response to his tough remarks, we have finally, finally seen some mealy-mouthed apologies coming from the the so-called "Moderate Muslim" camp. Albeit far from satisfactory or even wholly sincere, they are among the first recorded condemnations of terror from this side of the fence.
Maybe in these SOB's are taking OUR sensitivities into account. We are faced with an international enemy that far outnumbers any we have ever faced before. They wish our conversion, or death, or perpetual enslavement. Why take any of their sites off a potential target list?
Use the FR search functions to come up to speed on exactly what Tom Tancredo has to say.
My point exactly.
Ronald Reagan was a B Movie actor
Only if you ignore his very successful governorship of California and his politics afterwards.
Bill Clinton was a rapist.
Unknown to anyone at the time. And Bill Clinton could have been a great president, but squandered it.
Bush was a party animal and likely a reformed alcoholic/drug user who when he first ran for President could barely give a speech and who still has trouble with the English language.
Again you seem to ignore his two successful governorships which positioned him well for the presidency.
I think Tancredo would do just fine. He is a natural leader.
Then we are not speaking of the same Tancredo I met. He is a very nice man, good personality. His background is as a schoolteacher and he was president of a think tank in Colorado. He is not experienced in leadership positions, but because of his single issue stand on immigration, suddenly folks see him as the second coming.
Name a serious candidate who is willing to address immigration in a manner that puts American interests first, and I will support that candidate.
You're at the wrong website to be peddling that crap around here.
Bill Clinton was a liberal scumbag his entire life.
Next you'll be saying Hillary Rotten would make a fine POTUS.
Take a hike.
Are you suggesting Bush did during his primaries??? He resembled Goober Pyle of the Andy Griffith Show (in actions and looks)...Granted, he's come a long way since then...
And since you don't believe we should nuke muzlim religious sites, what would you propose we do when the muzlims unleash nuclear weapons on American cities???
"If you ask me, what Tancredo said is perhaps the only thing the Islamofascists understand. Every nicety of civilization is just weakness in their eyes. The sooner we appreciate that simple fact, the sooner we'll wage an effective war on terrorists."
BTTT
Stick it where the sun don't shine!
I don't buy that...He hasn't taken any acting classes like Ronnie Reagan but he's just as capable of getting ahold of some good speech writers like Bush did...
A good VP and Cabinet, AND pro American advisers, he'll be an excellent president...
That's what folks were saying about Perot when he seemed to be the only one talking about deficits and the national debt. He was clearly not presidential material, but did succeed in getting the issue on the front burner. The same can be said for Tom T. He needs to keep up the dialogue on immigration and it will wind up on the front burner where it belongs. He can take credit for it in his memoirs.
I'm not sure why folks on this thread seem to ignore or consider unimportant multiple terms as governor of one of the largest states in the Union. Tancredo simply has no leadership experience. He is a very nice guy, and was I understand a good school teacher. But he is clearly one issue oriented. He has already alienated two voting blocks and I'm sure will continue in that vein. He has a good issue to bring forward, but that issue does not make him presidential material. So we agree to disagree.
Standard liberal response.
Who has ever fought AND WON a politically correct war (oh yea thats right as of last week it is a "struggle" NOT A WAR :)
JUST WHAT is PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL?
I think BEING an American is plenty
I would have been happy with one successful Presidency of the USA and not the NWO.
He has done more to sell this country to the highest bidder than anyone in history.
If it was not for leaders like Tancredo and the outcry of an enraged citizenry we would have no borders with Mexico by now.
"Conservatives that is, who have the cojones to speak out and disagree with the President on immigration reform."
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Uh huh, what about THESE CONSERVATIVES?
The rest are all RINOs and wusses.
Since Cheney won't run Tancredo is the next best thing.
Tancredo said what many of us were thinking. We stand by and watch the terror attacks on innocent people, afraid that we're going to be next because of our open borders, and we realize that these terrorists are crazy, yet we're not supposed to think of revenge?
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