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This is a really good thing. Tancredo will put the illegal immigration issue back on the map. And it will put him on the map. If he is good, and he'll have to be pretty daggone good, he can operate from that ground and gain the nomination.

The GOP primary just got 100% more interesting. Oh, and forget about what the drive-by media is saying, that it's between McCain and Giuliani, or possibly Newt. Their polls and pundits are utterly meaningless right now.

In fact, if you want to know who wins this time, watch Free Republic. You'll have a bettter idea about who is going to be nominated by reading this site, than you will by looking at CBSNBCABCCNNWAPONYTYABBADABBADOO.

[peyton randolph]

If he is good, and he'll have to be pretty daggone good, he can operate from that ground and gain the nomination.

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Not with his Buchanan and pro-abortion ties. See post #3. Both make his nomination less viable than a Keyes' candidacy...and that's not saying much.

 

[TomGuy]

Tancredo will put the illegal immigration issue back on the map. And it will put him on the map.

Pre-election06 polls showed that 70%+ wanted border control and control of illegal immigration.

MSM and countryclub GOP tried to bury the issue.

Tancredo can move it to the front for 08. That will have a huge (hugh, even) impact on the 08 debates and election.



A few weeks ago I turned on an old laptop. I found an old email to talkshow host Rusty Humphries. My email was in reference to a statement Rusty made on his talkshow. The date was before the 2002 elections. Rusty made a comment that he had a memo to GOP candidates from the RNC. The memo told those running in the next election to drop any reference/mention/platform regarding illegal immigration, if they intended to get any RNC support.

My email to Rusty requested a link or copy or more info. He didn't respond. However, what is important is that the RNC wanted to bury the issue of illegals as early as the 2002 election.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Tancredo will put the illegal immigration issue back on the map. And it will put him on the map. If he is good, and he'll have to be pretty daggone good, he can operate from that ground and gain the nomination.

Uh, Duncan Hunter has already made stopping illegal immigration part of his campaign. All Tancredo will do is split up the conservative vote in the GOP primaries. As a candidate, Hunter is heads and shoulders above Tancredo.