Posted on 01/04/2008 7:15:54 AM PST by 11th_VA
For Tom Tancredo, who stepped out of the Republican race to support Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee's runaway win in Iowa on Thursday spelled big trouble for the Colorado congressman's anti-illegal-immigration cause.
"It's a discouraging thing," Tancredo said. "Because, really, to tell the truth, the real winner in this thing is McCain. . . . I think he's the worst in the bunch."
During his run for the GOP presidential nomination, Tancredo — whose single issue was a hard-line stance against illegal immigration — deeply criticized John McCain, the Arizona senator, for reform measures Tancredo equated with amnesty.
Tancredo said he thought Romney could fight back, if he had the will. Asked whether he wished he had remained in the race, Tancredo said no, adding that he was happy to be home with his family in his Littleton district. "I'd rather be here tonight than anywhere in Iowa," he said, laughing.
My rule is, don’t believe in the conversion of any politician unless it includes retiring from politics. Otherwise, if their lips are moving, and particularly if they’re running for office —— they’re lying.
And a shameless self-promoter who is his own worst enemy. Nothing dumber than making a name for yourself by continually insulting the folks you'd need to work with to make any progress.
The Huckabee “win” was no win - he just happened to appeal to the prejudices of a wide swath of earnest Christian folk who do not look much further than the platitudes issued by another earnest Christian.
Still holding out for further improvement in the position of Fred Thompson. No matter how desperately some in the media and in organizational politics may WANT John McCain, he still does not project the same aura of calm deliberation that lies like a mantle on the shoulders of Fred.
Mitt Romney was probably jarred a little by the results, but his message is still out there: that he is competent to walk into a virtual sewer of corruption and despair, and bring some sort of order and redemption out of chaos. This may be a virtue we badly need over the next decade.
Hey, he did not do so badly with the Winter Olympics and the Massachuetts Legislature, did he?
Man, you should’ve seen Greta and Shep working double time to talk over Tancredo at that point in the conversation.
With Romney, there is always an exchange of funds involved. I guess I am not very influential, as nobody has ever tried to buy me!
There is no reason to believe huck about anything. I can’t stand to look at him. I use the remote with him like i used to do with eleanor clift. His whole history says he is just like obama. I think huck knows he can’t win the gold and has a deal with mccain to be his vp. if the usa elected wjc they can elect huck and it will be puck city,except like carter huck would only last 4 years. He is going to be nice to iran and they will get rid of the nukes? I am going to have to find something else to do to distract me,this is too freaking depressing.
So you agree with Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Michael Kinsley, who said that “evangelical Christians” are “poor, undereducated and easily led”?
I am a little more conscientious and studious than that, though.
Please state the date when that website went up in operation and the specific Huckabee position paper on "Immigration" was assembled by public relations practitioners and released.
Then I will state a series of ACTIONS that actually occurred under the Governor Huckabee Administration months and years earlier.
Then we will debate the validity of Huckabee's long held actions and words vs. some recently ginned up statements.
Explain to me too, if he is so PRO BORDER ENFORCEMENT, the staunch support of Huckabee here on this forum by such eminent Open Borders/Amnestia/Regularizacion de los Indocumentados Freepers as "Dane".
No thanks. Not buyin' it.
You do realize that huck copied someone’s illegal immigration policy almost totally word for word off the internet? That he used state money to set up a mexican consulate in little rock? that he called us racists and bigots for being against illegal amnesty recently? and in a debate recently he defended his in state tuition (which he lied about the details by the way) that “you don’t blame the children for their parents sins”. He is a freaking obama clone, like carter,slicker than wjc, and will say anything to be president, then claim he is the authentic one. he tried to get drivers licenses for illegals. and the best for last “THESE ILLEGALS GIVE US THE CHANCE TO MAKE UP FOR OUR SINS OF SLAVERY” that is paraphrased.
Do you think tancredo and ann coulter and sheriff joe from arizona and rush are wrong?
And isn’t it impressive that your campaign manager says he wants to knock your opponent’s teeth out?
Yep. Both talk the talk but don’t walk the walk... as evidenced by Huckabee’s record prior to the Road to Des Moines and Tancredo’s sellout endorsement of the Grecian.
don’t worry, if he wins he will tell real conservatives that they drank “a different jesus juice”. truth is the dems will win. huck will scare the crap out of the purple states,and probably florida too.
How is giving illegal aliens free tuition like Tancredo’s position?
MR. HUCKABEE IS AN OPEN BORDERS, PRO-AMNESTY COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE WHO WILL CONTINUE GEORGE BUSH'S POLICIES, and has only temporarily altered his position on this issue to gain traction in the primaries and then gain the nomination, whereupon he will COMPLETELY ABANDON THIS ISSUE.
We weren't born yesterday.
Tancredo is a loser. He dropped out a week before Iowa and then endorsed the wrong guy. It’s too late for him to take that back now. Not that the lying Huckster would be the right guy now anyways.
Truth has a tendency to do that, and scare fibbers away when the bright light is shined upon their faulty assertions.
You wrote: “Why should we believe Huckabee’s change of heart, but not McCain’s?”
That’s easy. We shouldn’t.
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