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.”
WTH?
Apparently the GOP has forgotten Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment................
This is not a good move for Tancredo. If all she is doing is selling books, what is he doing?
The friend of my enemy is “not presidential..”
Fornicate him
I liked what he said about McCain (last sentence)....he seems to be that way too.
This part I must agree with. The McCain support is wrong. He is a virus that needs to be rid of.
Reagan forgot his 11th Commandment too when it suited him. Don't forget he challenged the sitting Republican President in 1976.
WTF? And YOU are Presidential?????????????????????????????????????
This is not a good move for any Republican.
Mitt Romney: "I'm not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses."
The headline is misleading to say the least. Tancredo is not ripping Palin. He’s merely saying out loud what a lot of people have started thinking. I wasn’t thrilled when she resigned her office last year...yes I understand the issues involved but she was elected for a 4 year term. Nobody made her run. But I swallowed hard and decided to stay with her...then she came out and endorsed the chief RINO of all the RINO’s. The Mac daddy RINO himself and I said no more. I like Sara, she has a compelling story and she can be a real help on the campaign trail but I’ll never vote for her for President. (in a primary...I’d have to reconsider in a general if she’s the GOP nominee).
More fallout from her McCain endorsement...Palin “mis-understimated” the incredible disdain out there for McCain. She needs to back away from that endorsement somehow. Perhaps this supplements regulation can be the launching point for a reversal on her part.
“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.” - Socrates
If someone appears presidential.. they merely have good handlers..
Like the arch-RINO John McLAme.. who is reality an arch-loser..
WHO.. thinks Barry Half-White will make a good president..
Ditto.
Yeah, I like Sarah Palin too. She’s articulate and telegenic, embodies conservative values, and has a record of confronting corruption in her own party.
That said, resigning her office and going on the books and lectures circuit does suggest the appearance, at least, of cashing in.
Not that I would really blame her.
Hey Tancredible — Here’s yer sign...
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