Posted on 10/19/2006 12:11:19 PM PDT by NapkinUser
Tom Tancredo wasn't the first to wave the flag on illegal immigration, but he's been among the most relentless. (That's good.) Unfortunately, he's also been among the most unyielding. (That's bad.)
By his willingness to sound the alarm, the Republican who holds Colorado's 6th Congressional District seat has become the face of the anti-illegal movement. Now it's time to achieve a solution, and Tancredo can play a leading role if he has the nerve to see it through.
We didn't support Tancredo's re-election bid in 2004, preferring challenger Joanna Conti who would have served without Tancredo's polarizing persona and single-item agenda.
But Tancredo has worked hard to advance an important issue that others would like to ignore, and we believe he can contribute to its resolution. Members of the House and Senate have hit a stalemate, but there are 12 million reasons they should forge an agreement.
We urge voters in the 6th to give Tancredo a chance to champion a comprehensive solution. We endorse his candidacy with trepidation. We know he'd have to swallow hard to make a compromise with the White House, but after Election Day it will be time to find common ground.
We provide this free advice to Rep. Tancredo: For every thing there is a season. A time to kick and scream. A time to be pragmatic. The issue has been joined. The public expects a resolution.
Tancredo's opponent, Democrat Bill Winter, is no stranger to public service and is a respectable alternative for voters who believe Tancredo is wrong on his issue and unlikely to help achieve a solution. Winter is a veteran of the Navy and Marines and offers a valuable voice on military matters. A former educator, he's ready to reform the unworkable No Child Left Behind law.
Winter also takes a sensible middle ground on immigration.
The Senate and President Bush have fashioned comprehensive immigration reform that includes border security, employer sanctions, a guest-worker program and an eventual path to citizenship. Tancredo says he doesn't oppose a guest worker program in theory but that border security must come first. A key area for compromise would resolve the impasse over the legal status of 12 million illegal immigrants already in this country. Tancredo has resisted any approach that could provide a path to citizenship for immigrants who fulfill various requirements. That's a cornerstone of the president's plan and the Senate's, and properly so.
We've come to respect Tancredo's effort to force the issue - he's a born provocateur. He'll need to show flexibility if he truly expects to solve the problem.
"I would love to see us pass something that really does something and get this behind us than to have a debate that becomes more rancorous," Tancredo told us recently.
It's entirely possible, and he has an obligation to get it done.
Apparently Rove has hired Vincente Fox from before the election of 2000 then to echo the madness...
"A time to kick and scream. A time to be pragmatic."
I see it differently from the Denver Post:
A time to stand for the rule of law rather than a time for appeasement of lawbreakers. A time to secure our borders and control immigration rather than a time for flooding our nation with low-skilled hoards of illegal invaders.
I got to play the lottery tonight. If the Post can endorse Tancredo, I can win.
"So, did Tancredo's latest check clear into your bank account?"
Why yes it did. How did you know? I can't believe I got paid a thousand dollars just for this.
How are things at the Bill Winter camp?
>I stopped about a week ago.<
What took you so long? (grin)
Show me a poll, taken here on FR, that shows anything but that a majority of FReepers believe that Bush/Rove's plan is nothing more than just another amnesty.
"Why hang around to make themselves and everyone else miserable?"
Think maybe it's time the minority of FReepers in favor of the Bush/Rove amnesty for illegal aliens plan to consider finding a new site?
Think maybe they should be the FReepers to follow your advice?
From thy keyboard to God's Inbox.
Think maybe they should be the FReepers to follow your advice?
The post you are referring to are Jim Robinson's posts. So I don't think he will be looking for another site....SINCE HE OWNS THIS ONE. I suppose you could ask him though LOL!!!
Well, if these people were not brain dead they'd know this "single-item" effects many others.
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I think your confused. I never mentioned anything about illegal immigration or amnesty. Never said anyone had mindless support either. SO, I have no idea what your talking about.
"He'll need to show flexibility if he truly expects to solve the problem."
He will need to show NO flexibility, or he will become the "problem"
Yeah : )
"Rove is a genius for .....
October 20, the guy is a genius. November 8, the guy is ?????"
Rove is quite possibly the worst hack who ever worked for the RNC.
ROTFLMAO!
So, Bush had no hand in this? Every time Bush goes around demanding "comprehensive reform" it's just a gimmick? Is Rove behind every tactic Bush uses? Is Rove really the president, then?
You're the one that reposted the advice. Obviously, you agree with it. Why don't you follow it yourself?
BTW, it sounded more like they endorsed Winter than Tancredo.
It is interesting. But Tancredo had best not look at it as a gift: they're gonna crucify him if he doesn't move from yapping to doing.
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