Posted on 06/28/2006 8:04:05 AM PDT by rob777
With "In Mortal Danger" skyrocketing up the bestseller charts and public concern growing daily over America's illegal immigration problem, the book's author, Rep. Tom Tancredo – the nation's undisputed heavyweight champion of the border security issue – just may be elected president, a popular cable TV newscaster said yesterday.
Since the official launch of his sensational book Monday, Tancredo has been on a media blitz – his book bulleting up the Amazon bestseller list from 7,311 on Monday to 25 yesterday.
On Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto" yesterday, host Neil Cavuto introduced Tancredo this way: "Illegals coming into America are sure to be front and center in the next presidential election here. And Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo certainly knows it. He owns this issue. And straw polls show that, if he were to run for president, he just might well be president."
Cavuto asked Tancredo: "Over the months I have talked to you, as this immigration issue has heated up, your poll numbers have moved up. Will you run for president?"
Responded the Colorado House member and chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus: "Neil, I will run for president if I cannot get ... any of the serious candidates to really take this on. My purpose is to make immigration the focal point of any national debate on a presidential election."
Tancredo added: "Your responsibility as a candidate for president is to do every single thing you can to tell the people what you believe to be the greatest threats to the nation and how you would deal with them. And then, you know what? If they buy it, OK, you're elected. If they don't, you have done your best."
The congressman also didn't mince words the previous night on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" show, saying: "Mexico is aiding and abetting an invasion of this country. They are part of the problem. In fact, they are creating situations along that border, using their own military, to protect drug trafficking into the United States, pushing their own people into the United States for a variety of reasons. It is an invasion."
Stressing that the problem facing America is not just illegal immigration – but a massive invasion of foreigners who come to the U.S. with no desire to become Americans. That, in the larger context of what Tancredo calls the "cult of multiculturalism," is what is radically and dangerously transforming the very character of life and culture in America within a single generation, he says.
In his book, published by WND Books, Tancredo warns that America is on a course to the dustbin of history. Like the great and mighty empires of the past, he writes, superpowers that once stretched from horizon to horizon, America is heading down the road to ruin.
English historian Edward Gibbon, in penning his classic "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (ironically published in the year America's Founding Fathers declared independence from Great Britain), theorized that Rome fell because it rotted from within. It succumbed to barbarian invasions because of a loss of civic virtue, its citizens became lazy and soft, hiring barbarian mercenaries to defend the empire because they were unwilling to defend it themselves.
Tancredo says America is following in the tragic footsteps of Rome.
Living up to his reputation for candor, Tancredo explains how the economic success and historical military prowess of the United States have transformed a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong into an overindulgent, self-deprecating, immoral cesspool of depravity.
His recipe for turning things around?
Without strong, moral leadership, without a renewed sense of purpose, without a rededication to family and community, without shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without protecting borders, language and culture, the nation that once was "the land of the free and home of the brave" and the "one last best hope of mankind" will repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past, he writes.
He strikes me as a guy that would be very satisfied with that. I hope that someday he makes it into the Senate.
I'll vote for him too!
Me too. Know a man by his enemies. What with the liberals, the open borders types and the country club RINOS all railing against him, Tancredo has the right enemies as far as I'm concerned. Run, Tom, run!
I'm sure somehwere in Vegas you can so go for it.
What is this "one trick pony" stuff? Spiff and others have posted his voting record as rated by various conservative organizations and it appears to me he is a strong conservative across the board. I am not implying he may not an area or two where many on the right have some disagreements with him, but his credentials seem as strong or stronger as any other Republican would-be candidates.
So, Dane, if your worst nightmare comes true, and Tancredo is the Republican nominee in 08, would you vote for him against a Clinton, Kerry, or other way out Dem liberal?
He'll have my vote whether he decides to run or not...
The debates are put on by the RNC and the DNC...There will no questions ask where the answers could be favorable to Tancredo...
Agreed, and I think he realizes it. I don't think he really wants to run for president. He's just saying it to raise his profile and get attention for his ideas.
If that was true (which it isn't), Tancredo has mastered the greatest TRICK since 1776...
Well, immigration is the only issue upon which he has a high profile or exerted any leadership. Which is fine. We need people like that. I don't think he'll run for president, but he is playing an extremely important role in calling people's attention to what is perhaps the biggest domestic policy issue of our time.
Buchanan was a speechwriter for Nixon and Reagan's communications director.
Although I am uneasy with Pat's apparent anti-Isreal proclivities I believe he's been given a real bum wrap by the establishment GOP types. Case in point was his keynote speech during the '90 GOP convention. There was nothing even remotely racist about that speech, contrary to the conventional wisdom among the country club GOP types. If you disagree look the speech text up.
You refer to Buchanan's racism. Yet a hardcore liberal lefty like Michael Kinsley does not agree with you.
Make that the '88 GOP convention keynote speech...
Like I said, the bashers can't debate the facts so they have to rip a page out of the liberal playbook.
It's similiar to how liberals have trashed Coulter.
His voice is needed in the debate - and maybe in the White House.
Then I must be right :)
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