And the day Tancredo jumps ship and runs third party is the day we are assured to have President Hillary Clinton or President Osama Obama.
He won't attract that many votes. They never do and Ralph or another leftie kook will drain from the democrats.
"And the day Tancredo jumps ship and runs third party is the day we are assured to have President Hillary Clinton or President Osama Obama."
BINGO.
The ONLY people who have suggested such a thing are the Tancredo bashers who need more "proof" that Tancredo is "Pat Buchanan's puppet" other than the simple fact he works with Bay Buchanan on the immigration issue. ( This "evidence" is getting tiresome as it's been pointed out many times that Ronald Reagan himself would be "Pat Buchanan's puppet" by such standards, since Ronnie personally had Bay overseeing his campaign finances and later appointed her treasuer ).
The ONLY contraversal issue where Pat Buchanan & Tom Tancredo agree are immigration, so the single-issue open border RINOs need to invoke Buchanan's looney 2000 third party presidential campaign and paint Tancredo with the same brush to gloss over the fact 1) Congressman Tancredo holds elective office, unlike Buchanan, 2) did NOT endorse Buchanan for President in 2000, 3) Wholly disagrees with Buchanan on a wide range of issues from trade to confederate memorials, to the war in Iraq.
But then again, if the Tancredo haters would check history, they'd discover Buchanan specifically rejected the chance to run as Constituion Party nominee, and instead hijacked Ross Perot's party out of ego. Therefore, it doesn't even make sence to try and tie the Constitution Party and Jim Gilchrist and a merry band of Buchanan brigagers, since they ran their own rival candidate AGAINST Buchanan in 2000 instead of endorseing his "Third party" bid. Makes as much sense as painting Joe Lieberman as being a Green Party puppet because he also ran on a "Third party"
If Tancredo reprsents "racists, xenophobes, and other assorted far right wing kooks", then the Republican Party platform has stood for "racists, xenophobes, and other assorted far right wing kooks" since about 1880 or so, since the party's position on immigration since that time has always mirrored Tancredo's platform. (You're welcome to read the past party platforms and see for yourself... they're pretty direct about strictly, orderly limited LEGAL immigration, tight borders, and deporting all illegals)
Those who dislike that much are welcome to join their own 'third party", such as the open borders, pro-amnesty Libertarian Party. Ironically, most of the Tancredo haters who accuse him of being party of a "third party' conspircy would have gladly voted for the Libertarian nominee if they lived in Tancredo's district. The now banned BayouRINO certainly wouldn't have voted for Tancredo, giving the hared he spewed on the thread annoucing REPUBLICAN Tom Tancredo had won re-election in the 2004 general election.
The ONLY people who have suggested such a thing are the Tancredo bashers who need more "proof" that Tancredo is "Pat Buchanan's puppet" other than the simple fact he works with Bay Buchanan on the immigration issue. ( This "evidence" is getting tiresome as it's been pointed out many times that Ronald Reagan himself would be "Pat Buchanan's puppet" by such standards, since Ronnie personally had Bay overseeing his campaign finances and later appointed her U.S. treasurer ).
The ONLY controversial issue where Pat Buchanan & Tom Tancredo agree are immigration, so the single-issue open border RINOs need to invoke Buchanan's looney 2000 third party presidential campaign and paint Tancredo with the same brush to gloss over the fact 1) Congressman Tancredo holds elective office, unlike Buchanan, 2) did NOT endorse Buchanan for President in 2000, 3) Wholly disagrees with Buchanan on a wide range of issues from trade to confederate memorials, to the war in Iraq.
But then again, if the Tancredo haters would check history, they'd discover Buchanan specifically REJECTED the chance to run as Constituion Party nominee, and instead hijacked Ross Perot's centrist party out of ego. (A major factor why his hypocritical campaign crashed-and-burned) Therefore, it doesn't even make sense to try and tie the Constitution Party and Jim Gilchrist and a merry band of Buchanan brigadier's, since they ran their own rival candidate AGAINST Buchanan in 2000 instead of endorsing his "Third party" bid. Makes as much sense as painting Joe Lieberman as being a Green Party puppet because he also ran on a "Third party"
Finally, if Tancredo represents "racists, xenophobes, and other assorted far right wing kooks", then the Republican Party platform has stood for "racists, xenophobes, and other assorted far right wing kooks" since about 1880 or so, since the party's position on immigration since that time has always mirrored Tancredo's platform. (You're welcome to read the past party platforms and see for yourself... they're pretty direct about strictly, orderly limited LEGAL immigration, tight borders, and deporting all illegals)
Those who dislike the party's position on immigration that much are welcome to join their own 'third party", such as the open borders, pro-amnesty Libertarian Party. Ironically, most of the Tancredo haters who accuse him of being party of a "third party' conspiracy would have gladly voted for the Libertarian nominee if they lived in Tancredo's district. The now banned BayouRINO certainly WOULDN'T have supported Tancredo, giving the hared he spewed on the thread announcing REPUBLICAN Tom Tancredo had won re-election in the 2004 GENERAL election.
Hate to break it to you, but Tancredo is a bit player and would not have this effect.
Not necessarily. But if the Republicans nominate McCain, Guilliani, or Romney, then the GOP will have assured that the Democrat candidate wins. It's time to quit blaming conservative Republicans for the GOP's losses. If you don't, the GOP will continue to lose.
Especially if someone like Duncan Hunter gets the GOP nomination. The CP would be fools to run a candidate of their own.
Like I said, the CP would be much more effective like the Conservative Party in New York state, who endorses conservative Republicans only.