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.
You said it had been "refuted" several times.
Refute = To prove to be false or erroneous; overthrow by argument or proof
Again, let's see it.
He caved to the anti-gun feelings following Columbine to get elected.
He also ran on a Term Limit Pledge...oops!
Nice Moral Fiber, once again, Tom.
Pat taught him, "Free booze trumps all". ;)
Dude, you're one of the biggest gun-grabbers on this forum. Quit with the phonyness.
Complete falsehood! How typical of you.
Show one link for that or slink away, liar.
The irony on this is laughable.
No kidding. Please direct me to that information.
No kidding. You read it too? Please direct me to that information that you read somewhere.
Tom Tancredo (R-CO) (12/20/45) - Did not serve. According to Political State Report, Tancredo "avoided service in Vietnam by obtaining a medical deferment for mental health reasons." This and this link, from critics of Tancredo's views on immigration, are harsher in their descriptions.
I've quoted the original Denver Post article before. It doesn't say what you and the other Tancredo Trashers want to pretend that it said. It makes clear what happened.
How about this, you keep accusing Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo of something. How about YOU prove your accusations.
BASEBALL CRANK? That's the authority???? buzzzzzzz
OK, maybe Political State Report? Nah. No URL found.
The latest posting of Tancredo having a mental health issue is bordering (if not flat out) on libel. His "proof" is from Baseball Crank. I'm still waiting on the original poster of this supposed "mental health" issue to give us a link.
He was alluding to some old news stories back in Colorado that could give national political writers fodder.
"That includes a published report that illegal immigrants were part of a contractor's crew that installed the home theater system in his (Tancredo) Littleton home - something Tancredo said he had no way of knowing.
And it includes the childhood depression treatments that led to Tancredo's mental-health draft deferment during the Vietnam War."
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=EARLYBIRD-07-15-05&cat=PP
Tancredo said he went for his physical, telling doctors he’d been treated for depression, and eventually got a “1-Y” deferment.
http://www.denverpostbloghouse.com/washington/2005/11/27/firebrand-tancredo-puts-policy-over-party-line/
I showed you in the Denvor post where it clearly said he didn't do anything wrong. Me thinks it is time for you to refute THAT!
So then as a child Tancredo set up a scam of depressoin treatment so he could get out of service??? Is that your claim now?
One one level I would bet you have never dealt with depression and as a result you have no idea what it is actually like.
How about you do something for me that no other Tancredo detractors have done on this thread and spell out what policies Tancredo supports that you oppose and then after you do that how about you qualify that opposition with youe alternative solutions to the problems he aims to rectify?
BUT NOOOOOOO, you want to go after personal history and no matter how much spin or inuendo is needed you think it is enough to simply cast aspersions.
You act like a democrat. A far left one at that.
Spiff, I've given links for everything.
You have yet to give a single link for your "refuted" claim.
Do you refute that he claimed mental problems to get out of Vietnam?
My claim? Anyway, it appears to be true. See the links above.
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