Posted on 08/12/2007 6:36:48 AM PDT by SittinYonder
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Fourth place went, a little surprisingly, to Tom Tancredo, who delivered perhaps the biggest applause line of the day as the candidates delivered their pitches, one after the other, to the Republicans gathered in the air-conditioned Hilton Coliseum. The unexpected thing was that Tancredo’s applause-getter wasn’t about immigration. Instead, Tancredo told the story of Danny Dietz, a Navy SEAL who was killed in Afghanistan in circumstances Tancredo blamed on restrictive rules of engagement. “When I am president, I will never, ever, ever send anyone into harm’s way with a CYA memo drafted by a Pentagon lawyer,” Tancredo told the crowd. “The only rule of engagement I’m going to have in a Tancredo administration is this: We win, you lose!” That got a lot more applause than anyone’s talk about change and the future.
Whatever the appeal, in general Tancredo went over pretty well. He certainly didn’t owe much support to his tent, which featured a corny, a cappella quartet/comedy group singing “Happy Trails” and “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” There were two guys dressed like cowboys, one like a hayseed, and — make of this what you will — one in a pancho, a big red sombrero and a wide Frito Bandito mustache.
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The real winner of the day was Huckabee, who is in the position that everyone else but Romney was fighting for.
I initially liked Huckabee, but his record indicates he talks a good game and says the right things that conservatives want to hear but he doesn't live up to the rhetoric.
"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 Palelologus
On Gun Control:
”I fully and completely support the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The failure of the ACLU to defend this right, and of federal courts to make the second amendment binding on the states, as they have made the first amendment and most others, testifies to their intellectual hypocrisy.”
-Tom Tancredo
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And Ron Paul, how’d he do? Did he get his legions of supporters to turn out?
“As for everyone else, Ron Paul won 1,305 votes, a number that many people thought might be higher until it turned out that a lot of the very vocal Paul fans wandering around the ISU campus were from out of state.” Gee, what a surprise.
I would add that not only were lots of Ron Paul supporters from out of state, but also out of mind.
The smart ones, who didn't spend oodles of cash on a 'popularity' contest were, Rudy, Fred, Duncan to a degree.
The Paulettes were hoping for a better showing and are coming up with some sinister voting machine conspiracy that kept their man from doing better, but Iowans indicated what the rest of the country sees in Ron Paul....'a nut'.
You know, I’d have never expected that either.
I’m still pulling for Hunter but could easily flip to Tancredo.
“As for everyone else, Ron Paul won 1,305 votes, a number that many people thought might be higher until it turned out that a lot of the very vocal Paul fans wandering around the ISU campus were from out of state.”
That’s not very smart... At least Romney drew his supporters from in-state so they could vote. Shipping in a bunch of folks to an event who can’t even vote in the event is as backwards minded as can be - but seems just about right for a lot of the Paul supporters I’ve seen posting here.
I like Tancredo, even if the Bush administration is working hard to deep-six his campaign. Tancredo has been the most vocal opponent of Bush’s plan to help Mexico invade the country. Tancredo has also actually said that there are circumstance under which he’d leave Iraq soon. That won’t sit well for the large number of FReepers who want to have a Roman-style generations-long occupation of that hellhole.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293003,00.html
Fox News didn’t even find it necessary to mention the mere existence of Tom Tancredo in their online straw poll article (as of 8:00 AM MST, Sunday August 12). Also lacking mention are Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul.
“Gee, what a surprise.”
No kidding. Every election cycle, some candidate chases the kooky college vote. It never materializes but they will do the same next cycle. The very definition of insane. Nothing against Paul but I don’t know how his “conservative” followers can stand to be in the same camp as the anti-war hippie college kids. You lie down with dogs...
Also, why can’t his followers see that most of this “vocal” support is just liberals chanting the same old chants?
I noticed the state department is now on board with attacking Tancredo. It’s pathetic.
stand by tancredo if you want a sovereign nation.
otherwise there is no use of even having elections any more.
“Apparently, Brownback spent a lot of money. Second only to Romney in spending, I think.”
Romney spent huge amount of money, around $5.7 million in Iowa and got 4,516 votes (out of a little over 14,000 total). That would translate into $1,262 per vote.
exactly
Now, just was the point of that statement?
Do the dems sit otherwise?
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