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Thread ID: 17588 | Posts: 15 | Started: 2005-04-01
2005-04-01 02:39 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=994&hl=tancredo]From the Office of Tom Tancredo[/URL]
From the Office of Congressman Tom Tancredo FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tom Tancredo to Keynote Minuteman Rally in Arizona
Washington, DC, March 30---Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) today announced that he has acccepted an invitation from James Gilchrist to deliver the keynote address at the April 1 rally in Tombstone, Arizona to kick off the month-long Minutemen protest against our open borders.
"I am going to Tombstone on Friday to tell those good citizens they are heroes, not 'vigilantes,' and that tens of millions of Americans are there with them in spirit," said Tancredo.
"The Minutemen are in Arizona as a kind of Neighborhood Watch program to help the Border Patrol spot illegal aliens as they enter our country. A year ago in the month of April, in only one month, over 64,000 illegal aliens were apprehended in the Tucson sector," Tancredo explained.
Tancredo says he plans to tell the Minutemen, "You are here to send a message to Washington, DC. Poll after poll tells anyone who will listen that 80% of the American people want our borders secured against illegal entry. If the politicians can't read the polls, maybe they can read our lips: SECURE OUR BORDERS NOW!"
2005-04-01 10:56 | User Profile
Ballsy.
2005-04-01 12:00 | User Profile
Congressman Tom Tancredo must run for the Presidency in 2008, to derail McCain.
2005-04-01 13:07 | User Profile
It would be different if McCain was all there---but---he ain't all there.
Then his wife's problems with drug addiction; while he was in office. Including the fact that she forged phoney/stolen scripts.
McCain has gone about as far as he can go.
Tancredo needs some minor work on trade, and trade policy.
2005-04-01 14:14 | User Profile
McCain will probably not be alive in 2008.
2005-04-01 16:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=SteamshipTime]McCain will probably not be alive in 2008.[/QUOTE]
Whaddaya mean? Natural causes (i.e. melanoma) or a Vince Foster-style suicide?
Has anyone asked McCain if he'd like to play a game of solitaire recently?
2005-04-01 16:07 | User Profile
[QUOTE=MadScienceType]Whaddaya mean? Natural causes (i.e. melanoma) or a Vince Foster-style suicide?
Has anyone asked McCain if he'd like to play a game of solitaire recently?[/QUOTE] Nothing sinister, just the melanoma. He is facing very long odds against a recurrence.
Even assuming he beats the odds, politically he's in the wilderness. Dubya is going to choose the next Republican candidate.
Also, he isn't at least 6 feet tall and he has prominent surgical scarring on his face. Seriously.
2005-04-01 16:14 | User Profile
I see. With an electorate enthralled with appearances, McCain, like Hilary, is becoming less photogenic by the day. It would be a blessing to have Tancredo in the race, though I'm sure he'd get the one-two punch of the Dean & Buchanan treatment until his candidacy dissovled. Who knows, though? If he hasn't any skeletons in the closet, he could stage an upset of the Jorge-chosen candidate, or at least throw the election for the GOOPs, although that would probably entail a Hilary reign, which, as we all know, is bad because she's a Clinton, not a savior like Bush. Who do you think the GOP 2008 nominee's going to be? I smell Jeb, but he might not be ready for prime-time yet and I suppose the choice depends a lot on how the 2006 midterms go for the Stupid/Evil party.
2005-04-01 16:21 | User Profile
I honestly have no idea who the GOP candidate would be. Other than Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo, they really are a bunch of midgets. It says a lot that Newt Gingrich is rumored to be sniffing around.
My speculation about Jeb is that, unlike his brother, he really is smart. Perhaps smart enough to realize president in 2008 may not be a very good job to have.
If Hillary Clinton is the Democratic candidate, I am 90% sure I would vote Republican just to keep her in New York, though I doubt she'd carry more than three states.
2005-04-01 17:49 | User Profile
The GOP primaries are the problem.
Unless Tancredo enters, it's gonna be McCain as the GOP nominee. Bank on it. Now, IF Tancredo enters, McCain is screwed--as Giuliani will doubtless also run. Giuliani is crooked-but-beloved, and so no one will care. He'll sweep the Northeast.
A Chuck Hagel (RINO-Nebraska) could gain Iowa and some of the corn-belt states.
Tancredo could wreak havoc in the South/Rocky Mountains/Southwest.
McCain might get California and perhaps a Rust Belt state or two and maybe Washington/Oregon (if those states don't go totally Giuliani).
A Tom Tancredo entry is the only way that immigration and the China problem will be addressed within the media and state-by-state. He must be compelled to run. Word from inside sez he will. I'm already gearing up for it--a PR machine at my fingertips, thanks to some software I've picked up overseas.
2005-04-01 17:57 | User Profile
In 2008 I expect or Jeb or Giuliani. Both have some popular support but are ultimate insiders.
2005-04-01 18:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=toddbrendanfahey]The GOP primaries are the problem.
Unless Tancredo enters, it's gonna be McCain as the GOP nominee. Bank on it. Now, IF Tancredo enters, McCain is screwed--as Giuliani will doubtless also run. Giuliani is crooked-but-beloved, and so no one will care. He'll sweep the Northeast.
A Chuck Hagel (RINO-Nebraska) could gain Iowa and some of the corn-belt states.
Tancredo could wreak havoc in the South/Rocky Mountains/Southwest.
McCain might get California and perhaps a Rust Belt state or two and maybe Washington/Oregon (if those states don't go totally Giuliani).
A Tom Tancredo entry is the only way that immigration and the China problem will be addressed within the media and state-by-state. He must be compelled to run. Word from inside sez he will. I'm already gearing up for it--a PR machine at my fingertips, thanks to some software I've picked up overseas.[/QUOTE]
McCain will only do well if no other "leftwing" (i.e. to the Left of Arbusto, who now, sadly, defines the "center" of the GOP) Republicans in the field. In the 2000 elections, he appealed the most to those who wanted Clintonism without Clinton, and to those are the sorts of people who would gravitate to a Giuliani.
If Giuliani covers the GOP left flank and Jeb Arbusto covers the center, then the disillusioned rightwing may gravitate to Tancredo in the same way that they gravitated towards Buchanan in 1992/6. I'm not sure where Tancredo stands on issues other than immigration, though from what I do know he is not the maverick that Buchanan was (i.e. his foreign policy tends to be in keeping with the neocon agenda).
2005-04-01 18:54 | User Profile
Yeah, if Giuliani runs, that pretty much takes McCain out of the field. For good measure, though, Tancredo can take Colorado/Utah/Idaho/Montana/New Mexico and possibly even Arizona, thereby obliterating any chances McCain could win "his region."
I don't see Giuliani putting a dent in the South (his pro-choice and pro-gay stance wdn't sell well down dehr)--which gives Tancredo another opening.
If one could somehow graft Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo together--like, from birth, and reverse time--, we might have a perfect President. Barring that, I'll be bucking hard for Tancredo in 2008.
2005-04-01 19:06 | User Profile
[quote=AntiYuppie]I'm not sure where Tancredo stands on issues other than immigration, though from what I do know he is not the maverick that Buchanan was (i.e. his foreign policy tends to be in keeping with the neocon agenda).
I could live with that. We need a major cleanup at home before we can tackle the mess we've made abroad. Plus, it won't alienate the Evangelicals and other "law and order" conservatives who believe the capital of the U.S. is Tel Aviv.
If one could somehow graft Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo together--like, from birth, and reverse time--, we might have a perfect President. Barring that, I'll be bucking hard for Tancredo in 2008.
A Tancredo/Paul ticket would be interesting, though I have a feeling they don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, the above-mentioned foreign policy being the big one, I'd wager.
2005-04-02 02:43 | User Profile
Im thankful for at least Rep Tancredo and the very few like him today holding elected positions. However, id be very suprised if Tancredo made it past the primaries, considering the current levels of control by the neocon/globalist/jooish/banking cabal currently in power.
I must admit i am not familiar with Tancredo for other than his stance on immigration. There are many more issues to consider before i would vote for him as president. At present, id rather have my Confederacy back and be considering who should run for preseident of the white house in Montgomery, Alabama.
Deo Vindice