Tancredo's Creed: Enforce the Law

Calling himself a “blue dog Democrat,” Peter Bultman, an employee of Project Vote Smart (thought not speaking on behalf of the group), supports Tancredo on the immigration issue alone. Bultman has worked for both the Democrat and Republican parties in the past and admitted that Democrat candidate John Edwards would be his second choice for President behind Tancredo.

He said that although Tancredo has “stumbled through” some of his responses recently, he has “filled a vacuum in the Republican presidential field by forcing a conversation about immigration.”

Bilingual education is another significant component and what initially inspired Tancredo. Thirty years ago, he was a teacher in Colorado, where such education is advocated. He said, “I kept wondering why, why, why, who would do this to a kid -- take him out of a class where he’s learning English and put him into a class where he’s taught in Spanish and almost doom him to a life of impoverishment?”

Tancredo then recognized the political implications that could actually make a difference. During Tuesday’s debate, he called the English language the “glue” of our nation. He re-iterated in our interview that America is different than any other country because we have no common histories, cultures or heritages. For this reason, he said, we “desperately need one thing that does bind us together.”

I don’t disagree about Hunter and his voting record but he was only one of a handful actually doing anything at all about it until Tancredo bought much needed national public attention to this issue. It is the public outrage however that is driving this not Hunters voting record.

As for Tancredo “honing his message”. As I said I agree he is not an eloquent speakers.I disagree it is “unhelpful” and I applaud him for approaching issues that most people are afraid of. The topics he delves into and brings out are things that up until now have never come close to being addressed. He at least get issues in the public dialogue. I am not as concerned as you about “image” As a matter of fact I think that is part of the problem because it is PC in nature. Too concerned about what the neighbors will think. That is largely how we ended up with this problem in the first place. People too afraid to address it. Don’t want to be label a “racist” etc. His comments about S FL are right on just like S Ca. They have become Hispanic enclaves and are being remade as little Mexicos and little Cubas. He is also right about slowing down or stopping immigration altogether for a time. We need to assimilate those already here. Yet some people want to continue with this balkinazation of our culture, our language and our way of life.

‘Give employers a reliable means to screen their prospective employees, first, then fine heck out of ‘em if they fail to do so.’

Give employers no other option than to perform a background check on prospective employees, and then jail them if they don’t, with a massive fine to the corporation involved.

It costs less than 45 CENTS to confirm the validity of a Social Security Number on an application. It costs on average 10 dollars for a criminal history check wholesale, including court fees.

Employers have the tools available to do this, but most won’t because of the minor expense incurred (minor being a relative term in this).

Make it mandatory, and don’t require the Federal government’s involvement.

I’m not concerned about Image. I hate PC. One of the reasons I like Hunter best. It wasn’t PC for him to be the only one to call for Harry Reid to resign over his “lost war” statements, or to mock Pelosi’s ignorance about military affairs, or to take Murtha’s cut and run bill and force it to a floor vote, or to push the bill to pardon Ramos and Compean, or to fight McCain’s stoopid anti-torture bill, or to be the lone man preventing the 911 commissions recommendations from gutting military Intel, etc. Hunter is the big bull in the china shop of capital hill. The difference is that he is always dead nuts on without the Tancredo mis steps.

Instead of calling an american city a “third world country” (a city that has a HUGE conservative, legal cuban population), Hunter instead says things like: I know many americans from hispanic descent, and they do not want this amnesty.

Tom Tancredo would appeal to a lot of labor and conservative Democrats. The Tancredo campaign reminds me of the Pat Buchanan candidacy in 1996. Buchanan sounded more like a populist Democrat on economic issues than Bill Clinton did. The same is true today. Tancredo is talking about issues like illegal immigration and protecting American jobs while the Democratic establishment is ignoring working class concerns.

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