he still seems to me to be the best for solving the illegal immigrant problem.
I like Tancredo also. Obviously, it was his work on the illegal immigration issue that first brought him to my attention in 2002 or 2003. I thought his was an important voice on that issue, but I thought little else about him - even when I heard he was considering running for president.
But as the field of candidates started to form - including Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich - I spent time looking at all of their records, all of their positions and all of their plans. Of course, Thompson and Newt have offered little in the way of a vision of what their presidency would look like in terms of a policy agenda, but they both have records to look at.
In the end, I decided that Tancredo was the only one other than Ron Paul and possibly Duncan Hunter who was seriously talking about limiting the federal government and turning it back toward the small animal it was intended to be. I was pleased to see that illegal immigration is not the only issue where Tancredo has been his own man and not just another Republican vote - he voted against No Child Left Behind, McCain-Feingold and the president's prescription drug fiasco.
In the end, Tancredo is the candidate I most relate to on the issues, and so on principle he's the one I will support in the primary.