Tancredo reluctantly backs McCain

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 4-4-08 | M.E. Sprengelmeyer

[kingattax]

WASHINGTON

[kingattax]

ronald reagan was a conservative idealist who practiced pragmatic politics when necessary. tancredo is being pragmatic.

[pissant]

I’ll be sending Tanc a box of lettuce heads.

[Dane]

"Sometimes I say to myself, 'Can I really do this?,'" Tancredo said of supporting McCain.

Could the drama queen tancredo please can the Hamlet impression.

[Cyropaedia]

There’s no drama. Tons of grassroots’ conservatives are saying the very same thing.

[SolidWood]

Tancredo is right. I hope all conservatives who rightfully despise McCain will follow him and support McCain, if not for him, at least against the Democommunist Party.

[Dane]

There’s no drama.

Please, Tom Tancredo is no Sir Laurence Olivier.

[Cyropaedia]

He's not trying to be Olivier or anyone. He's simply asking the same kinds of questions that an awful lot us here and around the country are asking.

I'm asking myself the same kinds of questions.

You're simply grasping at straws.

[CindyDawg]

Mr. Tancredo you do have another alternative. Run as an Independent and give us a choice too.

[FoxInSocks]

I hope all conservatives who rightfully despise McCain will follow him and support McCain, if not for him, at least against the Democommunist Party.

Yeah, but the problem with that is if McCain wins, he'll probably believe everyone supports him and thinks he's a great candidate. The reality is choosing which level of hell we'll be descending to.

[Dane]

He's not trying to be Olivier or anyone. He's simply asking the same kinds of questions that an awful lot us here and around the country are asking

JMO, Tancredo should have gone whole hog on his "dilemna".

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.

[calcowgirl]

The silencing of all GOP opposition to McCain’s liberal policies is almost complete.

[Man50D]

ronald reagan was a conservative idealist who practiced pragmatic politics when necessary. tancredo is being pragmatic.

It's never pragmatic to sacrifice conservative principles. As we have seen and are seeing that false premise only begets increasing and incremental socialism with the irony being socialists never sacrificing their principles.

[kingattax]

is hating mcCain reason enough for any conservative to not vote for him and risk letting our brave heroes in the military be in obama or hillary's hands ?

would a true conservative be really willing to risk that ?

i sure as hell hope this is given proper consideration by everyone who calls themselves a conservative

[Grunthor]

“Tancredo reluctantly backs McCain”

Well after all is said and done, Tom is just a Republican after all. Disappointing.

[Man50D]

Tons of grassroots’ conservatives are saying the very same thing.

Anyone who supports a socialist like McCain is not a Conservative. Tancredo is falling for the same losing strategy of supporting the GOP first and Conservatism second.

[indcons]

Your murderer and rapist amigos are wondering why you don’t show up on the illegal alien criminal threads to support them anymore, Dane. What’s up with that??

[FreeReign]

Mr. Tancredo you do have another alternative. Run as an Independent and give us a choice too.

Tanc had his chance in the primaries. Even Tanc knows that.

[Cyropaedia]

You're the one acting like drama queen. You're obviously suffering from a bad case of projection.

The irony is obviously lost on you...

[Grunthor]

“is hating mcCain reason enough for any conservative to not vote for him”

Yes. It’s called payback.

“and risk letting our brave heroes in the military be in obama or hillary’s hands?”

Ah, another person that believes that the only issue in the world today is the military. It isn’t. It’s not even the most important issue in the nation today.

[Grunthor]

Defending McAmnesty accomplishes the same thing.