Comments on Tom Tancredo Is Not Running For President Anymore

I'm sure the Wall Street Journal is overjoyed - their chief story on the election today is how Americans are becoming anti-global (ignoring the reality that we just want our foreign treaties to include labor and environmental standards, and investigation, prosecution, sentencing, jail, and confiscation of assets of CEOs/execs who hire illegal workers, not the workers themselves per se).

GREAT picture selection. Because, you know, the slash is almost like right over his face..hehe

I hope he gets run over by a truck full of day laborers.

My prediction is that he'll get himself a radio show and / or a syndicated column, which will fail because of his utter inability to talk about anything but immigration.

There are rumors that he's considering a run for our open Senate seat but the state GOP has it's annointed candidate (former Rep. Bob Schaffer, and I might have misspelled the last name) and has successfully chased all other considered candidates, including another former US rep who has a $2 million war chest. Tank is arrogant enough to defy the state GOP and run anyway, but we'll see if he tries to hang on.

So are Hispanics hip to the fact that they're the gays of 2008 and the Republicans hate their guts?

What about all of those articles in the recent past claiming that the R's have sown up the Hispanic vote thanks to God, guns and gays? I can't imagine all this deranged, hateful, paranoid, racist xenophobia is going over well.

Well you see, getting the rest of the GOP field to hate on immigrants and pull the discussion on this issue far to the right was his entire reason for running, not to actually win the nomination. He may be batshit crazy, but I doubt he's that stupid.

@5

Right-wing 101:

The gays are attacking the American family, by being...gay, and...they're disgusting faith-ruining faggots. Solution: second-class citizenships, justified bigotry.

The hispanics are taking their jobs, not paying any taxes and still-no-speaka-English. Solution: build a fence, be a racist.

@3

While that would be sweet poetic justice, it would also add ammo to his argument.

Another rumor on the local blogs is that he's leveraging for a cabinet position which he might try to buy with an endorsement. Word is that he's going to support Huckabee, not Romney, but we'll see.

@10,

He explicitly said he's endorsing Romney at his speech this afternoon. Otherwise, that's totally horrifying, even in rumor form.

@5 - Yes, we are aware of that.

@8 - Did I mention that the day laborers have laser beams attached to their heads?

What @6 said. Why waste time and money running on this issue now that all the Rs are on board the hate bandwagon? I hope after he gets run over by that truck he winds up in a hospital where all the immigrant staff is on strike.

@4,

I think it's Schaffer and he's King of the Douchebags for sure. I can't remember what District Tancredo has (had), but Schaffer would actually be worse. He's the worst kind of politician and that's really saying something these days. Anyway, good fucking luck. I hope you live in Degette's district.

@ 10, thanks for the correction.

@ 13, I do live in DeGette's district, but I kinda wish I lived in Tank's district (the 6th, covering southern 'burbs) just so I could be one more liberal that's diluting the GOP makeup of the place. Schaffer used to be the 4th district rep (most of eastern Colorado, seat currently occupied by anti-gay marriage amendment sponsor Marilyn Musgrave, who almost lost re-election and has made a run for the center this term.)

@4 is correct, tho. He'll be back - on talk radio.

Can you remind us again, who this Tom Tancredo person is?

@16 he is Duncan Hunter with an ethnic sounding name

who?