Tancredo's impact: GOP race, country more mean-spirited (Laughable barf alert)

The Rocky Mountain News ^ | December 22, 2007 | Mike Litwin

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'll admit it. I underestimated Tom Tancredo. I underestimated the impact he could make as a presidential candidate, particularly as a candidate who was polling, as many of us had predicted, around 2 percent.

And yet, I had no idea he could take one issue and, with it, help make the Republican presidential race - and the country itself - an uglier, nastier and more mean-spirited place to be.

He didn't do it by himself, of course. He wasn't even the lead player. You have to give that role to Lou Dobbs and the huge audience on his team.

Still, you'd have to call Tancredo's aborted presidential run - his never-even-get-to-a- vote run, his abandonment- even-by-the-Minutemen run, his so-desperate-to-be-noticed-that-he'd-even-endorse- Mitt Romney run - a success. And that's even though, as a candidate, he was a minor disaster. And even though few will even notice, now that he's dropped out, that he's actually gone.(continued)

[Mr. Mojo]

I’m a big Tancredo fan, but this author is giving him entirely too much credit. The anti-illegals’ sentiment across our nation was quite apparently long before Tanc tossed his hat into the Presidential race.

[Mr. Mojo]

apparently = apparent

[gubamyster]

ping

[ApplegateRanch]

That is rich!

Guess I wasn’t as far of as I thought, with my off the cuff sarcasm.

[raybbr]

Mike Litwin

[Clemenza]

He looks like the teacher from Beavis and Butthead!

[mthom]

So youd pass a bill that virtually shuts the door to immigration from anywhere but Latin America and trust the Dems not to gut border security when they took power. Makes perfect sense.

[calvo]

Your analysis is very thoughtful, and I agree completely. I have been following Tancredo for a very long time. He was doing the heavy lifting against illegal immigration long before it came to be popular. He could have sold out at any time for personal gain.
As far as the touch back crap it is just a gimmick, I don’t think it is better to flood the country with low wage, indentured servants than have illegals. Legals here making minimum wage flood the schools, hospitals, and welfare just the same as illegals.