Posted on 06/05/2006 4:51:21 PM PDT by Spiff
100% "Best and Brightest" Rating from American Conservative Union (one of only 38 other Congressmen)
100% Rating from National Right to Life Committee
100% Rating from Conservative Index (Spring '05 - 75% lifetime, tied for second highest rating)
100% Rating from Concerned Women for America
100% Rating from Christian Coalition
100% Rating from Campaign for Working Families
100% Rating from FreedomWorks
98% Rating from National Tax Limitation Committee (average since 1999)
95% "Taxpayer Hero" Rating from Citizens Against Government Waste
95% Rating from Americans for Tax Reform
95% Rating from Christian Action Network
93% Rating from Eagle Forum (tied for second highest rating)
0% Rating from National Education Association
0% Rating from National Organization for Women
0% Rating from Brady Campaign
0% Rating from People for the American Way
0% Rating from Planned Parenthood
0% Rating from Pro-Choice America
You can tell a faux Republican by the way they badmouth Tancredo, who is pretty much everything a real conservative could want in a Congressman.
I await the flames from the Go-Along-to-Get-Along types re immigration.
The only way to take down the best and most blessed Country in the history of the world is from the inside.
If the amnesty bill passes America will be dead, It may whimper for a few years but it will be lost!
Sheesh.
He lied about his Term Limit Pledge and claimed he was "mentally unfit" to avoid Vietnam.
Talk about faux. I'm not surprised you "support" him.
If that's the worst you can dredge up, the guy must be cleaner than 99% of the elected officials we have. I care not for term limits - the people who need those applied to them the most are the least likely to agree to them - and if the guy was suffering from depression in 1968, that's not something I will hold against him in 2006.
What I care about is having a clean elected official who will advocate, vote for, and advance policies that are good for the nation. And on that basis there are few who hold a candle to Tancredo.
So Tom is willing to let the entire issue drop. I guess he sees a way to retire on illegal immigration.
He wants, and desperately, needs the issue to stay alive.
He knows the Senate will not pass HR 4437. Even Mike Pence knows that, which is why Pence modified the House bill.
So. Tommy has a choice. He can back Pence's bill as a starting point, of he can have his issue in a minority Republican House.
Which means he won't get jack.
Tom has found his meal ticket. He is the Jesse Jackson of illegal immigration.
Sure to upset the various Mexico-merger trolls.
Good for you. Tancredo did, now he doesn't.
and if the guy was suffering from depression in 1968
It wasn't in 1968, it was when he was a kid. He used that to declare "mentally unfit" to avoid Vietnam.
What I care about is...
Nobody asked.
What does it say about Pense's bill that you support it? Tells me it's a deceptive amnesty bill.
what I'd like to know is if a person who was born here of parents who are citizens here can lose the right to vote by the commission of and conviction for a crime, just why the hell are these idiots charging off a cliff to give the vote to people who weren't born here and whose first action coming here was in itself a crime?
In other words, for lack of any substantive objection to Tancredo, you'll do the socialists' work for them in trying to bring him down on trivialities.
I rest my case, Mr. Faux Conservative.
Oh, and yes, "they" do ask, every election.
Exactly. Without illegal immigration as an issue, Tancredo is just a fat, round face in a GOP crowd.
No bill will be death for the Republicans in November. Tom Davis has said that, and so have others.
If the Senate had any interest in HR 4437, it would have taken it up a month ago.
Tancredo was physically abused by his father, and he talks about it openly. He addressed the issue recently on a local Denver talk show. He has overcome a childhood of abuse and I am proud to have him as my Conressman.
So did other Congresscritters.
Did the voters of Colorado care? No, they returned Tancredo back to Washington.
Darn, I'm disappointed. When I misread the title I thought the House had already told the Senate No!
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