Posted on 08/15/2005 10:06:39 AM PDT by Crackingham
Told three years ago to never darken the doorsteps of the White House again, Congressman Tom Tancredo suddenly is the toast of Washington. OK, that's pushing it, but more and more people want to hear from the Littleton Republican, who's been on a one-man crusade against illegal immigration since he was elected in 1998.
Even Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman is saying nice things about him. Three years ago, the party was embarrassed by Tancredo, saying he didn't represent mainstream Republicans. But the winds are shifting. You can expect immigration reform to replace Social Security as the next big issue in Washington when lawmakers return from their August recess.
Before they adjourned, President Bush visited the Republican congressional caucus and lawmakers told him they were getting hammered at home over immigration. Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave hears about it wherever she goes.
Tancredo has been barnstorming the country, trying to make immigration an issue in the 2008 presidential race and threatening to run if no one else picks up the torch. He's as suspicious as anyone as to why immigration is suddenly the hot topic - his rabble-rousing paying off? - but it's likely a combination of things, including the London bombings, that has Washington ready to act. Either way, it's long overdue.
Speaking of Tancredo, his would-be presidential run is turning a few heads. He landed the No. 9 spot on PoliticalDerby.com's power rankings for the 2008 race - one spot ahead of Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. "He's gone from an afterthought to a candidate worthy of an extra look," the site reads. "... He's speaking on college campuses, and his message is being eaten up faster than a cheese danish at a Howard Dean presser."
Tancredo stumped in California last week and has trips planned this month to Utah, Minnesota and Iowa. Next month, he'll head back to New Hampshire, the nation's first primary state.
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Nuking Mecca is a popular idea, it looks.
"Mainstream Republicans" who employ illegal aliens, that is.
Name recognition plus expanding his platform to some other hot issues could do it.
Any Republican up for re-election these days; ignores the Immigration Crisis at their own risk.
Told the RNC that a while back when they called our house doing fund raising.
"You want a check? I want the US Borders secured."
Closing the border is even more popular!
Tancredo is great! Especially when he begins about appropriate responses to a terrorist attack within the US.
IMHO, Washington can go @@@K itself. What a bunch of destroyers -- and Tancredo should win the nations' highest civilian award for bravery. It is no surprise he is "person non grata" with Bush and the other NWO and ONE AMERICA crowd, and the disfunctional Congress that backs this destruction of the soverignty of our country, and the long list of downsides.
Three cheers for Tancredo and those that support him.
Fear of Hillary will cause the GOP to move even farther left over the next few years.
My, my, my - lookee here.
That would be stupid. There is no way to paint Hillary as an extreme liberal when you are moving in that very same direction. Of course she is an extreme liberal, but she is trying to move to the center, so that can cause some trouble.
"his rabble-rousing paying off?"
I consider it a snide and overt insult to call his supporters 'rabble.' This wouldn't be the lamestream media we're dealing with, would it?
The media has to build him up....
so more people notice when they take him down.
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Fear of Hillary will cause the GOP to move even farther left over the next few years.
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Ping!
Ain't that the truth...
Tancredo was on the savage nation, he says that no one on captial hill will even talk to him. Like a loser in the lunchroom at high school....he says he sits by himself.
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