Posted on 03/30/2007 9:09:25 AM PDT by John Jorsett
WASHINGTON (AP) - Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo, an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration, will announce his bid for president on Monday.
Tancredo will kick off campaign with an announcement in Iowa, where political caucuses start whose the presidential nominating season, an official close to the congressman said.
Tancredo has flirted with a presidential bid for more than a year and began raising money for the effort in January. After taking in more than $1 million in two months, he has decided to make his run official, said the official, who asked not to be named ahead of Tancredo's official announcement.
Tancredo's office on Friday morning said that he will make a "major announcement" Monday on a Des Moines, Iowa, radio station.
Tancredo spokesman Carlos Espinosa would say only that Tancredo will announce his intentions and that his decision whether to run for president won't affect whether he will run again for his House seat.
Tancredo, a five-term House member who represents the Denver suburbs, is a leading supporter of securing the nation's Southern border with Mexico and cracking down on illegal immigration. He has used the issue to take on President Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain, a leading contender for the GOP nomination.
Tancredo acknowledges that he is a long shot for president, but he has made no secret that he hopes to rattle McCain's campaign in Iowa by appealing to conservatives on immigration, abortion and other issues.
McCain last year co-sponsored a bill creating a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country now, though he has played a smaller role in the issue this year.
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Snowball's chance. However, he will introduce some more badly needed sanity into the immigration debate, along with Duncan Hunter, and continue to keep the pot boiling and putting pressure on the others.
ditto that..,...zero chance but will bark the issues and Newt will define em..........we are cookin' w/ gas now...............wooooooooooohooooooooo
Tom Tancredo running is a good thing. While he a pony that does only one trick (immigration), it's a damn good trick and if he can push the entire Republican field in the correct direction, then he's done good, not to mention he might turn out to be a good VP candidate.
Right on.
Undoubtedly on Jan Michelson's show on WHO.
VP possibility. Thompson/Tancredo... hmmmm....
Tancredo is not a one trick pony. He know, as do most who follow the immigration debate, that illegal immigration affects everything. Schools, healthcare, population, environment, etc. You can just go right down the line of anything that is in supposed dire straights of 'government needs more money'.
Illegal immigration boils down to two things........taxes and laws.
Tom Tancredo knows this but it really should be emphasized more by the anti-illegal people.
Not to mention it might be the single most important trick this country has faced in the last 30 years and one our leaders have failed us miserably on. IMO it is more important than the WOT - even pretending that the border and the WOT are two different things. Which I don't.
The snowball's chance in hell stuff I don't get. The primaries are the time to decide who you can support and who you can't based on the issues. They shouldn't be a horse race where people pick favorites based on who has the best chance of winning. The purpose of the primaries is to determine who the best candidate is.
I'm glad Tancredo is running and I suspect some will be a lot surprised to find out how big of an issue the illegal aliens problem is with the people. Just watch.
McCain is already finding that out and not in a good way.
Who is left to join the mile-long parade?
I still think it's going to come down to Thompson and Gingrich. These two can rip the Democrats apart. Especially when you look at who they are running and the division in their ranks. All the Republicans have to do is get tough and show our people that they can bring this country back to what it once was. These two can also get tough with the UN if they want to. All they have to do is tell the UN to straighten up or we are out of there. I'd bet that England would follow suit and establish another organization to take the UN's place.
Gingrich doesn't have a prayer, and he knows it. I think his candidacy is just a means to let the world know that he still exists so that he can sell more books and speeches. This isn't a knock on Newt, whom I like (at least politically. His personal life is a little more, uh, "complex" than I'd like).
That is exactly right and his presence in the race will ensure that the tax-and-spend on immigrants issue gets driven home.
Tancredo: The Republican Howard Dean
"I'm glad Tancredo is running and I suspect some will be a lot surprised to find out how big of an issue the illegal aliens problem is with the people. Just watch."
I have always liked Tancredo. Straight shooter that believes in America first, no compromise. That is probably why he is un-electable but who knows? Could be another Reagan.
Tancredo, Hunter, and Thompson are the conservative rebellion. They will speak plainly, and they will push this election to where it needs to go.
My preference is Hunter, and I like Thompson. I like Tancredo, too, but I haven't heard him articulate a position on the offensive war, and for me the war is bottom line. I agree with others, that you can't separate border security from the war itself, but so far Tancredo hasn't shown much interest in war issues. That will probably change now, as he enters the race.
I am expecting him to be more isolationist than the others, more inclined perhaps to bring the boys home and focus on simply keeping the baddies out. I don't think that will be effective, I don't think we have that choice, personally, but I'll wait to hear Tancredo explain his own position.
Doesn't matter...The Dems will rip them apart as well...
The winning votes will not be determined by the Republican or Democrats...If that were true, the Democrats would win every time...There's far more of 'em...
The independants will pick the president...
Question is, who has the message that will appeal to those folks...It's going to take a half liberal like George B. or a pro America fella like Ron R...IMO...
Ditto - he's a one issue candidate. No chance of being nominated.
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