The struggling campaign of Tom "Let's Bomb Mecca" Tancredo announced a "major address" by the candidate tomorrow.
News reports are unanimous in expecting the loudmouth bully to quit his campaign.
Not able to maintain prospective voter loyalty of more than a couple percentage points (although he has a cult following among the marginally-adjusted on Gather), Tancredo is unlikely to continue to campaign with empty coffers.
It is hard to feel sympathetic for this harsh proponnent of draconian measures against immigrants, especially after the series of outrageous lies and fantastic statistics he has entered into public discourse.
Tancredo was criticized in the mainstream press for comments like these: "Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country."
But, his equally asinine remarks about having a litmus test for judges (they must oppose Roe vrs. Wade) and Stem Cell Research ("murder") have been largely ignored.
It is good to see the winnowiing of the kooks begin, but it is a loss for white supremicists (Tancredo's anti-Arab, anti-Chinese remarks would violate the Gather TOS) and other hateful people.
Good Riddance.
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Thanks for keeping us advised.
I am glad to see him slink away before Christmas, too, el fabuloso.
Stephanie, I tend to agree that, while there are other hateful persons out there, each departure is a victory.
Hey Don, I know that we don't always agree on the subject of immigration.
I hope that the debates can become more rational with the likes of Tancredo out of the picture.
I left a question for you in response to your comment on a Christmas illustration, but you never came back (which was an answer, actually).
I speculated that much of your time has been devoted to football.
Elizabeth, many people are very fearful and very threatened.
They have good reason to feel so.
But, I believe the anger toward immigrants and the poor of other nations is a misplaced, and should be directed at the political classes that use slogans to deny healthcare to children, or medicine to the needy.
Good questions, Gary.
Keys is a perreniel candidate; he has had no success in anything since he was a minor functionary in the Reagan regime.
Running for office is the only way he can create the imnpression of relevance.
He showed up with a five percent voter preference rating, and was eligible to join the other Republican dwarves in spewing sanctimoious blather in the candidate debates.
Stephanie is right; inciting hatred solves nothing.
I hoped that Tancredo would vacate his House seat, also.
We hope . . . you're gone . . . for good!
Happy trails . . . to Tom,
Back to . . . your Neigh . . . Bor-hood!
Just get down off your high horse and get steppin'
You're clearly not the savoir's secret weapon,
So Happy trails to you . . .
Till we MEET A-gaaaain!
:P
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
Oh, that it were so, Dame Ruth.
You know that there is a crisis in authority and legitimacy in general when the electorate feels that it has to elect the representative of God.
Love the song, Doyle!
Despite the hype generated by groups like FAIR and guys like Lou Dobbs, there just weren't enough people who consider the immigration issue so serious that they were willing to open their checkbooks and give "Nuke 'Em All" Tom the money he needed to stay in the race.
I think you are right, Wil.
Despite the fearful, angry outbursts on Gather, it doesn't look like this issue is going to be a defining one for the Republicans.
Now if we can just get rid of a few more far right loonies, we'd be in business.
It is hard to play one issue, especially one as complicated as immigration, all the way to the White House.
Tancredo was so transparently dishonest as a rabble-rouser that it is truly satisfying to savor his rejection by prospective voters.
I can't remember where I've commented from one day to the next, unless it earned me a few (self-)righteous enemies. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about...
I had not seen you for some time, and when you commented on the "Buying Doodads" article I left this question:
" Kris, I haven't heard from you in a while.
Has football occupied the entire Autumn?
This is a rhetorical question to which I already know the answer." :-) "
Funny thing about that. The message he was selling when he got elected to the house was term limits. From what I've read, he was as passionate about term limits as he was about illegal immigration. At least, he was passionate about term limits until he decided to run for a fourth term, even though he'd promised he'd only serve a maximum of three terms. Then he decided term limits, at least for him, was a bad idea.
Before that, back when he was a College Republican, he was passionately in favor of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. At least, he was passionately in favor of the war as long as he didn't have to be personally involved. He managed to convince the army doctors that he was too depressed to go kill communists halfway around the world, and got a deferment.
Honestly, I've got no idea what the people of the 6th District of Colorado see in the guy. Maybe there are a lot of nativist know-nothings there. LOL!
All the passionate defenders of the current miserable war, except for McCain, have never served in the armed forces.
It is no surprise that Tancredo is a hypocrite on this issue, also.
Haven't heard a peep out of any of those bragging blowhards.
I believe we did away with the divine right of kings during the French revolution, didn't we?
And, in England, during the English Civil War. Apparently, we miss these divine rulers.
Where are Robert, and Timothy, and the other idiots who blather or peep their ridiculous nonsense about immigration?
That'll get 'em riled up.
Are any of the candidates offering sane views on the issue?
Maybe if I type ONLY IN CAPITAL LETTERS, SHE WILL STOP BY TO TELL US MORE OF HER FANTASIES INVOLVING SEX WITH SOLDIERS.
Nippy, reasonable discourse about immigration will begin when the ranting bloviators like Tancredo can no longer get a boost from the demagoguery.
I haven't heard any sane proposals, Wil.
McCain used to be sane on the subject of immigration, as was Giuliani.
Now, they have to play to the righteously stupid in rural Red States.
I am not inhuman.
Secure borders first , something the powers that be will never do and I can't understand why.
Will the immigrants be wearing license plates, Matt?
I'm sorry Matt did not get back to see the responses to his humorous suggestion.
No. We'll use dental records.
Thank heavens the immigrants always make their destinations clear for the camera.
You can tell. It's something in their eyes.
First of all that's one way to start a conversation Moron...
I try to speak the language of the typical Tancredo supporter.
Looks like it worked.
Ironic, no?
And, it is a description of the illustration above.
Instead of saying, "your argument is faulty. I suport Tancredo and I am not a 'nativist know-nothing"", the guy demonstrates the point of the article - that Tancredo and his supporters are rabble-rousers given to inflamatory speech.
Inflamatory speech incites those who are given to inflamatory speech.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977212421
I think True American was being sarcastic. If you go to his name space and read some of his articles, it's obvious he doesn't believe a word of it.
I could not deal with it on Christmas Day.
(I loved your reference to computing the temperature of Hell).
Like Aniko, I thought the Craigs List post might be a hoax.
But, again like Aniko, when reading the original thread, the author seems to be a particularly twisted piece of sex-denying madness.
I like the "cockblock" word, too.
He posts examples of really wretched religious talk from the Web.
TA is an atheist, and supporter of libertarian Ron Paul.
But, as you note, "people this misguided and angry exist."
No. She still hasn't sent her photos yet. Gee, I hope nothing happened to her.
I am sure you will hear from her soon.
I assume that you already told her about the Nigerian Uncle.
She is likely to call much sooner if she feels the need to congratulate you on your sudden prosperity.
No, I was saving that as a surprise.
Knowing about your good fortune may inspire her to call sooner.
Did you send the fees for the financial transaction?
That's what I was thinking as well.
Knowing about your good fortune may inspire her to call sooner.
I don't know. I want to make sure she loves me for me and not my money.
Did you send the fees for the financial transaction?
You know it. I borrowed the money and put my car's title up as collateral. As soon as I get the money, I'm going to get my title back.
Then, you have nothing to worry about.
These transactions are very complicated, and often have amusing consequences.
It seems that the South African tykoon, in sending the two million dollars to my account, inadvertantly closed the account and took the money to South Africa !
What a riot!
I sent him a funny e-mail, explaing what had happened, and giving directions for getting the money back to the right place.
Need to keep some of the original thread alive.
I know. I'm still not sure why they needed my credit card numbers and my checking account number.
For the sake of the thread:
What? Did Tancredo drop out of the race? Where have I been?
You must have become so wrapped up in this new romance that you have ceased paying attention to politics.
I'm sure that's it. Though recent developments have made me doubt Priscilla's sincerity. Maybe she is a guy who lives in Chicago.
But, she wrote to me, too, Stephanie.
So, her tastes in men are rather catholic.
I don't think you should call it quits just because she ignores you, calls other guys, and asks for a lot of money.
That is still the motto of this thread.
I may well be old enough to be your father. But I don't look like it in a cruel accident of fate.
Oh, I know she's playing coy. I'm prepared to show her I'm the man for her.
It is cruel, Matt.
People snicker when I try to tell them about my dreadful experiences in World War I.
I am going to be 118 years old on Tuesday.
How are you going to do this?
It sounds a little creepy.
Did Lyndon put you up to it?
Happy early birthday. Here's hoping you make it to 119.
Not at all. I'm going to phone her tomorrow when I'm at work, so I won't have to pay for an International call. We'll get this straightened out one way or another.
Did Lyndon put you up to it?
He only helped me to see what was staring me right in the face.
All of them? Are you naked?
If you want to keep Priscilla, you need to make sure you only send clothes in size 0-2. She'll never admit they don't fit, even though they won't do her any good.
Of course, he may have already "moved on" and given up on this international romance.
Children are like that.
I loved what Truman Capote said about him.
It is vitally important that the evil Tancredo return to the center of this thread!
I enjoy creating long comment threads in which his many acts of idiocy and outrage are thoroughly aired and lamented.
He is, however, "old news", and I could let it go except that CNN had the raving shrewish nutjob, Bay Buchannan, on as a commentator last night, and she talked once more of how she had joined the Romney campaign from the Tancredo camp because someone has to "wake up" America about immigration.
Perhaps we could propose a trade with Mexico: our criminals for the hard-working immigrants that are willing to make our world a better place. Listen to these folks, and I get the distinct impression they'd rather keep our murders and villains.
Naturally, the trade would be a losing proposition for Mexico, unless we paid them a considerable sum per inmate; however, I bet they can keep them in prison for considerably less than we're spending and still make a profit. They get prisons and jobs guarding prisoners (and money) and we get rid of the crappier citizens so we can let in those that add not subtract to society.