President Bush barely mentioned his proposal to legalize illegal aliens throughout the campaign, and only did so vaguely in the third debate when asked about the subject by Bob Schieffer. Bush has a mandate on a number of issues, such as the War on Terror, the definition of marriage, taxes, and perhaps Social Security reform. Those were the themes that his campaign emphasized, not legalizing illegals. No mandate there, and Bush's legalization will not pass.
Buchanan and his idiot sock puppet Tancredo tried to undermine the President's reelection by publicizing his guest worker program and calling it amnesty. They failed.
It's not clear why you think that some guilt-by-association ad hominem against Tancredo via Buchanan is pertinent. It isn't. Congressman Tancredo disagrees with the President's approach to legalizing illegal aliens, as do most Americans. Yet Tancredo consistently supported the reelection of President Bush, as did most Americans. Buchanan is an irrelevancy.
President Bush won decisively. You lost. Get over it.
LOL! I voted for President Bush.
It's not a case of "guilt by association". Tancredo is a creation of Buchanan. Buchanan established his Team America PAC and set up his website with his own webmaster running it. Buchanan put his sister Bay Buchanan in as chairman of Tancredo's organization.
Tancredo's website is an "attack Bush" orgy of anti-Mexican hate pieces.
Tancredo's website links to some of the most racist and white supremacists sites on the internet.
Anyone can say they voted for President Bush, but the Buchanan/Tancredo devotees did everything they could to discourage people from voting for President Bush and they lost because most people are not opposed to President Bush's immigration reforms.
Most of the Buchanan/Tancredo crowd are third party losers who have always been in denial of the fact that their opinions are only held by a very small minority of malcontents, misfits, and troubled individuals.