Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
Posted on 05/22/2006 4:14:55 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. |
WASHINGTON – Two years ago, he was as lonely as the Maytag repairman – an obscure congressman trying desperately to raise the visibility of an issue he believed threatened the very security of the U.S.
More recently, he has become a force to be reckoned with, the leader of a powerful House caucus, a Republican who has taken on the president, a man respected for outspoken positions and the political force behind what has become the hottest issue in the nation.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus and the undisputed heavyweight champion of the border security issue in the nation's capital, now tells the whole story of the threats facing the nation, the solutions within its grasp and his own personal quest to awaken the political establishment to the seething discontentment gripping America as a result of illegal immigration.
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In his new book, "In Mortal Danger," published by WND Books, Tancredo warns that the country is on a course to the dustbin of history. Like the great and mighty empires of the past, he writes, superpowers that once stretched from horizon to horizon, America is heading down the road to ruin.
English historian Edward Gibbon, in penning his classic "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (ironically published in the year America's Founding Fathers declared independence from Great Britain), theorized that Rome fell because it rotted from within. It succumbed to barbarian invasions because of a loss of civic virtue, its citizens became lazy and soft, hiring barbarian mercenaries to defend the empire because they were unwilling to defend it themselves.
Tancredo says America is following in the tragic footsteps of Rome.
Living up to his reputation for candor, Tancredo explains how the economic success and historical military prowess of the United States has transformed a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong into an overindulgent, self-deprecating, immoral cesspool of depravity.
His recipe for turning things around?
Without strong, moral leadership, without a renewed sense of purpose, without a rededication to family and community, without shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without protecting borders, language and culture, the nation that once was "the land of the free and home of the brave" and the "one last best hope of mankind" will repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past, he writes.
Tancredo, born and raised in Colorado, represents Colorado's 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to his election to Congress in 1998, Tancredo worked as a schoolteacher, was elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives in 1976, was appointed by President Reagan as the secretary of education's regional representative in 1981, and served as president of the Independence Institute. He serves on the International Relations Committee, the Resources Committee and the Budget Committee, and is the chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. Tancredo and his wife, Jackie, reside in Littleton, Colo.
I'd support Guliani over the "nuke Mecca kid" Tancredo.
You failed to provide context as I asked you to. I wonder why you did that??
Tancredo was asked about what a possible response would be if a muslim terrorist entity was to detonate a nuclear weapon in this country. What Tancredo described was simply self defense.
You paint what he said as if he was talking about doing that as a first strike.
You are the one that got manuevered my FRiend. Context matters.
Go ahead. Start arresting Catholic bishops and see how public sentiment will swing against you.
"If the Tancredo Trashers were capable of shame, they would be ashamed for abusing this website to pollute every thread the merely mentions Tom Tancredo with their hate and lies."
Cry me a river. Tancredo is combative and bombastic on purpose. Its a part of his marketing. PLus he has got to get more money for more abortive and perhaps future symbolic Preisidential campaigns in the future. His pension is vesting in 08 so he needs to sell more books and think ahead of his glorious future as some talking head on some program on MSNBC in the future
SO then, he knows obscene socialist excess when he see it.. check..
Cool..
I don't care what anyone says, that was a great parody and very funny.
And everyone knows that being rich makes you smart and virtuous and right.
Somehow your post about what Tancredo really meant doesnt make it much better. SO Iran bombs us and we bomb Mecca?
And? Maybe someone figured out that snubbing one of the Republican Party's leaders on the immigration issue who enjoys a wide following within the party, and who retains an excellent voting record, was not a very good idea. Maybe Karl Rove didn't get to vet all of the party attendees. Maybe you're just throwing anything and everything you can to trash one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress out of sheer hatred.
It was a stupid response, and will be used by any opponent of Tancredo's for a higher office. "Nuke Mecca" is a bumper sticker. Tancredo explaining "context" gets lost.
A stupid admission by an out-of-control demagogue.
TANCREDO FOR 08 ~! Sounds good to me...he's the only one with his eyes open at this point.
Very good catch. Not that we did not suspect as much.
Couldn't hurt.. Cheney would be a much better President anyway....
MUCH BETTER..
Are you SURE you're not a paid RNC operative? Or on Ambien?
And the book that you authored sold how many copies?
Already been done.
The Catholics hierarchy in the USA is broke from the results of their sodomy and protection of the sodomizers.
They are being sued to bankruptcy.
Catholics hold no moral authority or leadership authority.
I suppose they need new "donors" and they dont care where they get them from.
You know, I think you're an asshole. I don't think you've done anything with your life but bitch and moan. There, I feel better.
You forgot "perfect."
Perhaps being on the public payroll has given him a perspective that greedy capitalists lack.
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