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I hadn't read that response yet.

If he is saying he is unelectable, WHY waste the time and money of trying?

I am certain he could start something else with that time and money otherwise?

And if he gets eliminated early, and I think there is decent/good chance of that happening, what would he do then? Some will see it as egg on his face. I won't, but some will. Others will start to ask what were his motives?

And I wonder if the prospective GOP candidates will continue to talk about immigration at all after Tancredo is out. My guess is that if it isn't a hot issue at the time, they won't.

"My guess is that if it isn't a hot issue at the time, they won't."

I don't know the line of thinking Tancredo is using, but he probably wants to see a spot as a republican candidate for president as a platform to speak out against illegal immigration, see how many supporters he can get, and hope that one of the other more electable candidates sees it and seizes on it. But Tancredo has said he would stand a nearly zero chance.

He probably is trying to avoid what you wrote about by testing the waters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

My guess is that it wont be a hot issue. "Comprehensive immigration reform" will have passed and everything will be fine. It will be a hot issue again when the first crop of "Guest Workers" decide they dont need to go home. It will really be too late by them and well just have to ride out the slow slide into EU style integration with mexico.

Hi, Mike,

I saw your screen name and that is what finally got me to look at this thread. :) I've been very busy, working for a local paper. Hey, I got my local town to spend some money for snow plows; we had a wheel fall off of a snowplow in the middle of a snowstorm; I talked to every guy at public works, and my title was something like "The wheels have come off!" LOL!!!

Anyway... I lived in Colorado for ten years, and I am/was a huge fan of Tom Tancredo. He is a smart man who is very able to bring important issues to people, and illegal immigration is a very big issue in Colorado, Texas (lived there, too), etc., and other border/magnet states. Nationally, though, I'm not sure.

At the risk of sounding like an idiot because I haven't had the chance to read through this thread, I don't think he is electable on a national level. One issue is not enough to carry a candidate through the primaries, especially if, as you say, a majority of people aren't worried.

So these are my thoughts without having read through the thread. :) I guess I just wanted to say hi, and thanks again for your service, Mike.

Hey... today I was able to connect the Pentagon with our local mayor, who wanted to write a letter of condolence to the mother of a guy who was born in this Canadian town, but gave up his citizenship to join the US military; he died in the recent Blackhawk helicopter crash.

I spent a lot of time trying to do this. And today I thanked the mayor's aide; I said, "I am an American citizen and I appreciate that he will take the time to write a letter."

Whew... I've gotten wayyyyy off topic, huh?! LOL