Posted on 11/09/2006 2:47:44 AM PST by NapkinUser
With this week's tumultuous power shift in Washington, D.C., and the crucial 2008 election virtually around the corner, the battle over who will be the major parties' presidential candidates now moves into high gear.
One contender many Americans consider the nation's best possible candidate is Rep. Tom Tancredo, R.- Colo., who just won his fifth term in Congress. In fact, Tancredo – the nation's undisputed heavyweight champion of the border security issue, and whose new book on how to solve that vexing problem, titled "In Mortal Danger," became an immediate best seller – just may be elected president, Fox News's Neil Cavuto said recently.
"Illegals coming into America are sure to be front and center in the next presidential election here," Cavuto said on a June broadcast of "Your World with Neil Cavuto," "and Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo certainly knows it. He owns this issue. And straw polls show that, if he were to run for president, he just might well be president."
Cavuto posed the question to Tancredo: "Over the months I have talked to you, as this immigration issue has heated up, your poll numbers have moved up. Will you run for president?"
Responded the Colorado House member and chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus: "Neil, I will run for president if I cannot get ... any of the serious candidates to really take this on. My purpose is to make immigration the focal point of any national debate on a presidential election."
Tancredo added: "Your responsibility as a candidate for president is to do every single thing you can to tell the people what you believe to be the greatest threats to the nation and how you would deal with them. And then, you know what? If they buy it, OK, you're elected. If they don't, you have done your best."
The congressman also didn't mince words the previous night on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" show, saying: "Mexico is aiding and abetting an invasion of this country. They are part of the problem. In fact, they are creating situations along that border, using their own military, to protect drug trafficking into the United States, pushing their own people into the United States for a variety of reasons. It is an invasion."
Living up to his reputation for candor, Tancredo explains in his book how the economic success and historical military prowess of the United States have 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.
In a word...NO.
The next Prez has already been decided ...The new world order has spoken ...It's Hilary !
I know a lot of people don't like Tom, but I toast him for bringing this to the attention of many people. And, who after all, would have expected pelosi to ever be in the position she is in now? Run, Tom, run.
No.
No.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I know Tancredo is most likely not going to go far in the primary (the odds of him winning the republican primary are 26-to-1 according to some online betting site.) But I'll vote for him if he runs, and he'll move other republican candidates to the right on immigration, so I would really like to see him run.
I happen to like his forthrightness, but folk on this thread liking him or not should not disqualify a potential candidate who thinks along these lines. He'll get my unqualified support, both in time and money, win or lose, for this country otherwise is indeed heading toward repeating the causes of Rome's decline--and its subsequent catastrophic fall.
Regards . . . Penny
Maybe, but in the mean time, he ought to run for Minority Whip.
The electoral bias against Congressmen becoming president is pretty stiff. Governors are preferred.
The recent election has rendered this all moot. Bush and Congress will earnestly set about the project of importing millions and millions of new Democrats which will forever end the concept of border security and Republicans as a national, or even a state contender.
Good for Tancredo.
I doubt many Americans really care if the person running is a representative, senator, governor or even an agriculture commissioner, as long as they say the right things and they agree with them. Kerry didn't lose because he was a senator.
There's talk of a third party in usenet. Im feeling a strong rumble.
By the way... Joe Biden said that John Bolton's history
The next President will be Nancy and then Hillery, unless Islam takes over sooner and then NO woman will be allowed to work anywhere.
Check history. Only a couple of congressmen or senators have been elected though many have run. Kennedy was a senator.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Well, at least it's not that Clinton woman, Hillary - (sorry, I could not resist)
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