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If anyone really thinks somebody supporting Tancredo would be pleased at millions of dead Americans they are WAY out of line.

There's a very strange phenomenon where people can eventually start subconsciously rooting for bad stuff to happen they've were warning about...it's not limited to the right...Jesse Jackson no doubt spends a lot of time hoping some dumb Rednecks lynch a black guy so he can get media attention and whine and lecture, and is disapponted every day it doesn't happen. Envirowhackos and Al Gore are undoubtedly hoping for a zillion bad hurricane landfalls this year, etc.

I used to read the Timebomb 2000 forums and it was blantantly obvious the Y2K=end of civilization nuts were HOPING it would happen; people derive near-sexual levels of pleasure about warning about bad stuff, and then seeing it happen, so they can then gloat about it afterwards and laugh at the people that didn't believe them. After Jan. 1 2000 rolled around it was pathetic to see how they were frantically scanning every news source in the world desperately hoping to find the end of civilization starting somewhere - reports of a blackout in India in January 2001 sent them into orgasms of joy (of course, they didn't know there were ALWAYS blackouts in India). After about 3 months, they finally gave up. Anyone who reads a lot of terrorism threads and also stuff on the internet has to be aware there are a heck of a lot of people getting (subconsciously) disappointed and upset at the failure of a Muslim terror attack crossing the Mexican border to occur... And the clear excitment and frenzy that people get into at even the slightest rumor of the possibility of one, even from the most dubious of sources (also look at the proliferation of specious nonsense terror rumor sites like the Northeast Intelligence Network, telling people what they want to hear) suggests to me it's not "out of line" to speculate that quite a lot of people are subconsciously sort of hoping for one. Also look at how upset people get on threads about things that they think could be terror incidents but turn out to be accidents....and they take out their frustration at the people suggesting it wasn't a terror attack. And let's face it; the only way Tancredo for President isn't a laughable joke is if there's some terror attack killing thousands from someone crossing the Mexican border. That's the plain truth. At one time I was about the only person with the above observations, but it's occuring to more and more people. And it's not just hoping for a terror attack crossing the Mexican border; it's hoping for one because a lot of people clearly spend a heck of a lot of time faantasizing about Mecca being nuked or random nukes being lobbed into Muslim countries, etc, and they figure the only way it can happen is if there's a really massive terror attack here. Psychology is a strange thing, and a lot of people won't explicitly verbalize their subconscious hopes.