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Tancredo rips Palin: Not 'presidential,' just selling books
The Hill ^ | 03/01/10 | Eric Zimmermann

Posted on 03/01/2010 9:55:39 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Tancredo rips Palin: Not 'presidential,' just selling books By Eric Zimmermann - 03/01/10 12:09 PM ET

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) ripped into fellow Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin in a recent interview, saying she's not "presidential" and accusing her of simply trying to sell books.

In an interview published yesterday (via GOP 12) Tancredo said he can't see Palin as commander in chief.

"I really don’t have this feeling about her as being presidential," he said. "I don’t know what it is exactly. I don’t know if the issues really are that difficult for her or not.”

Tancredo said Palin doesn't seem to be attempting to improve as a candidate and suggested that her goal seems to be to "make a lot of money and stay in the mix."

Tancredo said he's particularly upset that Palin will campaign for John McCain in his primary against J.D. Hayworth, a Tancredo ally:

She has to do this to rise in the party ranks?

“I think so.’’

So she is just as much an unprincipled politician as all the rest of them?

“To a large extent.’’

And you still love her?

“I didn’t say that!’’

Well, in your Tea Party speech you pointed out that she could finally say all those wonderful things now she’s free from McCain.

“I said: ‘Now she can tell it like it is.’ And she chooses not to.’’

But Tancredo saved his heaviest fire for McCain, whom Tancredo has long disagreed with on immigration reform, among other things.

“I don’t like him," Tancredo said flatly. "He is not a very pleasant person. He is nasty, mean; the skin of an onion would look deep compared to his. He has a short fuse, he is almost peculiarly unstable.”


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KEYWORDS: palin; tancredo
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To: hinckley buzzard

That is one of the stupidest responses I’ve ever read.


121 posted on 03/01/2010 5:27:05 PM PST by pgkdan (I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Sub-Driver

More of Tancredo “taking the country back”.


122 posted on 03/01/2010 5:39:03 PM PST by unsycophant
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To: Reagan Man
LOL Don't be so touchy.

Oh, I'm not all that "touchy". I was commenting more directly to some of the things you said, rather than you, personally. I could have made that more clear in my post.

I tend to be a bit of a firebrand by nature, and the tenor of the times has tended to make me increase my rate of fire. I didn't mean to direct that square between your eyes.

After replying to you, I read some of your other posts downthread, and see that you're not reflexively in the anti-Palin camp.

123 posted on 03/01/2010 6:47:00 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
...it’s “whack-a-mole” here unfortunately. FR is not immune to imposters (or Hucksters, Paulsters, Mittsters, McQueegsters) seeking to undermine conservatives.

Yeah, too bad the forum rules don't allow us to "vote them off the island." LOL

In extreme cases, the management boots the worst offenders, but there are those who are slick enough to avoid an outright zot.

All we can do is continue to speak the plain truth to the best of our ability, no matter the audience.

124 posted on 03/01/2010 6:56:53 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Don’t matter what Tanc says. Palin’s the right answer.


125 posted on 03/01/2010 9:15:15 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: swain_forkbeard
Show me a politician who never cashed in? Good freekin grief.
Maybe you haven't noticed but it costs millions to run for office
and dare I mention personal expenses. Are you anti capitalist?
126 posted on 03/01/2010 9:29:51 PM PST by MaxMax (Conservatism isn't a party)
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To: Chi-townChief

LOL, he still lost to other losers in his OWN DISTRICT


127 posted on 03/02/2010 2:52:36 AM PST by Onerom99 (I)
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To: Sub-Driver

128 posted on 03/02/2010 3:04:18 AM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: jla

“...merely seeking a viable excuse for her egregious error in endorsing McCain.”

I’m afraid the egredious error is in your lack of political acumen.


129 posted on 03/02/2010 10:14:21 AM PST by rbmillerjr (I'm praying for Palin....if not I'll vote 4 conservatives...Mitt won't get my vote)
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To: rbmillerjr
"...merely seeking a viable excuse for her egregious error in endorsing McCain."

I'm afraid the egredious error is in your lack of political acumen.

You copy and past my comment which includes the word 'egregious' and yet you manage to misspell it in your reply.

Sorry, Junior, if I find you to have no credibility in judging anybody's "acumen" on any subject let alone that of a political nature.

130 posted on 03/02/2010 12:48:37 PM PST by jla
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To: jla

Funny stuff. I knew, because you can’t debate properly, you’d zero in on the typo.

I almost corrected it but thought I’d play ya and see if you would do what most people do, when they can’t formulate rational arguments.

Thanks for doing exactly what I thought you’d do lol.

Thanks for playin.


131 posted on 03/02/2010 1:39:57 PM PST by rbmillerjr (I'm praying for Palin....if not I'll vote 4 conservatives...Mitt won't get my vote)
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To: rbmillerjr

The word is p-l-a-y-i-n-g, not “playin”.


132 posted on 03/02/2010 2:09:42 PM PST by jla
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To: rbmillerjr
By the way, Jr. See post 113. I wore one to the gym this afternoon, and a very butch looking gal sneered at me.
Do you think her really perturbed or perhaps she was just "playin", eh?
133 posted on 03/02/2010 2:17:24 PM PST by jla
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To: pgkdan

I seems that perhaps the powers-that-be may have loaded the field with a number of stalking horses to divide up the conservative vote.


134 posted on 03/14/2010 8:46:45 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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