Posted on 11/20/2002 7:21:40 AM PST by nonliberal
GOP Targets Pro-borders Tancredo
Rep. Tom Tancredo, the nation's most outspoken opponent of the invasion of illegal aliens, is being targeted for defeat - not by the Democrats, but by the GOP establishment.
Just last week Tancredo, R-Colo., crushed his Democrat challenger by 37 points. But the moderates and liberals see him as a conservative loose cannon packed with ammo.
His "criticisms of President Bush's immigration policy bought him a 40-minute rebuke earlier this year from Bush adviser Karl Rove, who, in the Congressman's own words, warned him 'never to darken the door of the White House again,'" Roll Call reported Monday.
"I'll be surprised if he doesn't have a primary" in 2004, said Floyd Ciruli, an independent Colorado pollster. "It's a given."
Possible Republican rivals in '04 include popular state Treasurer Mike Coffman, state Sen. Jim Dyer and former Arapahoe County Commissioner Steve Ward. Democrats have given up on the conservative district south of Denver.
Tancredo's other capital crime, in addition to urging that the U.S. actually maintain its borders, is violating his pledge to serve only three terms. (Note that Democrats didn't raise a fit - publicly, at least - when the late Sen. Paul Wellstone made the mistake of breaking his word not to run again.)
Roll Call says "Tancredo is not one of the president's favorite people. Earlier this year, the Congressman accused Bush of pandering to Hispanic voters and trying to prop up Mexican President Vicente Fox by offering amnesty to certain undocumented immigrants. That declaration brought an angry 40-minute phone call from Rove, and Bush pointedly failed to introduce Tancredo to the crowd during a political rally in Colorado in September."
Ciruli said Tancredo's views on immigration were in line with his constituents'.
"Nobody who's going to argue the soft side of immigration is going to beat him in the Republican primary, or even in the general," he said.
Oops: Tancredo, founder of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, was embarrassed earlier this year when it was revealed that a house contractor he had hired employed illegal aliens, Roll Call reported.
But as the congressman said at the time: "I hired a reputable company, I did not hire the labor. It is the government's responsibility to enforce our immigration laws, and if the INS were doing its job, no illegal immigrant would be available to violate our labor laws."
BUMP
Bush is a dud.
Again Carl Limbacher recycles someone else's article and pretends its news. This Tancredo weeper is from another story and doesn't have a word that can be backed up.
It's always amazing to me how Carl can watch a talk show or read someone else's column, write a couple of hundred words and throw it up on Newsmax. I hope they don't pay him.
Even though he includes in the article "Roll Call reported Monday" (he always reports where he stole the article from), it's still plagiarism because it's stealing a portion of what the guy from Roll Call wrote, even if it is put into different words.
I noticed a long time ago NewsMax was doing this, it's a real slimy operation. They want to get visitors to their site who will buy their merchandise so they can make a quick profit, and they do it by flattering idiot talk show hosts like Michael Savage (who then mentions NewsMax on his program) and stealing other peoples stories (because they can't produce anything useful on their own).
I almost had to stop reading when they called Dick Armey a conservative. Ha!
I really hate to bother you again, but exactly WHERE is that quote?
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Do you dress like him?
Get help. Your idol is a blithering idiot.
And none with the "star" power of Tancredo.
Oh that's right Tancrdeo is the only one of that caucus who uses Tom Daschle(Hillary, McAuliffe, Pelosi) tactics.
Sorry to break this to you but big blowhards can also be found on the right of the political spectrum, although the great majority of the blowhards are residents of the left, IMO.
Good evening Deb.
Glad to see your arguments are as powerful and focused as ever.
Uh Dane...he's the head of the caucus. I believe he's supposed to speak out a bit on its issues.
If we are arguing...I missed your point.
Uh Rodger dodger, using daschle tactics ain't going to get him anywhere and brings embarassment upon the caucus, IMO.
Oh well live and learn.
I also live in Cal, and I agree with your assessment. Simon lost because he was a poor candidate who ran a bad campaign. Being a political neophyte didn't help him.
I've heard Tancredo interviewed twice about this, and both times he attributed the quote directly to Rove.
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