Republican Tom Tancredo dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination this afternoon, endorsing Mitt Romney as the candidate who most closely shared his anti-illegal immigration fervor. Although Tancredo polled miserably, he left his mark on the race by pulling the Republicans–with the possible exception of McCain– even further to the right on this issue.
And what did Tancredo think of his fellow Republicans appearing in a recent Spanish Univision debate? Don’t ask. And don’t let the door hit you on the way out either, Tom.
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Simon Rosenberg at NDNblog calls it 1%, 62% and the failure of Tancredoism:
As all of us try to make sense of the current immigration debate and how Tancredo’s total rejection by Republican primary voters fits in let’s consider these two figures: 1% and 62%. 1% is the share of the Republican vote Tancredo has been receiving. 62% is the share of Republicans who support an earned path to citizenship, according to a new LA Times poll taken two weeks ago. Taken together it appears that Tancredo’s approach to immigration, “Deport Those Who Don’t Belong, Make Sure They Never Come Back” has been overwhelmingly rejected by even Republican voters, and is just one more example of how the GOP’s investment in the immigration issue has failed time and again to produce the results they had hoped for.
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OFN
Bu-bye. What is that in spanish?
Now go guard the fucking border you sorry race baiting asshole!
Good riddance to bad rubbish. And take Mitt with you.
Don’t let the door smack your racist, xenophobic, nativist, Know-Nothing ass on the way out.
must disagree with the supposition that repugs rejected tancredo’s position on illegal immigration
tancredo was a one issue candidate and that is why he was rejected
his positions on illegal immigration are being embraced by many
The Fuck should keep on going and go all the way back to his home land in Italy we don’t need or want his Ilk here , as his 1% illustrates very clearly. I know he was born here but but he seems to think that prerequisite only applies to some people .
This is off topic, but there were direct and apparently violent clashes with police over the closing of low cost housing in New Orleans.
I cant find much coverage. It seems to me that this is significant and is just the type of news that the administration and the other fascists would bury.
What is going on with this?
nola has this http://www.nola.com/
AMF (adios, mother f-er)
I read some comments at Malkin’s yesterday about Tom’s dropping out. Most of them were so bummed out. I don’t mean to laugh at their sadness, but I did.
Will he now go back to he home for the insane? People at Malkin’s thought he should the head of homeland security. They are just sure he will get a cabinet position in the next Republican administration.
anon @ 8:
Most of the cable news shows covered it a lot yesterday and some are still covering it today. CNN headline news covered it in depth explaining each side’s stand.
Tom here is a perfect example of elected legislators the are there too long and forget the people that elected them for the lie of those deep pockets that convinde them it was their money that got them elected. And the way the game is rigged, These elected positions will always be filled by someone that has to take a salary cut when they assume the job.
Tancredo now must return to the comfort of his partisan political bubble where he is owned by his big campaign donors. They like words like contracting out instead of bribery. It sounds so legit, you know.
I won’t say good bye to Tom Tancredo. rather until he acts on orders of those that own him. Becayse he is not going away. He’s just returning to congress.
Romney must be elated to have this losers endorsement. That’ll probably give him three more votes.
I’m looking forward to Al Sharpton dropping out and throwing his support to McCain.
Going back two posts ago, Tancredo’s approach to immigration is almost exactly the same as Ed Shultz’s. Don’t let that stop you from featuring him when he says something against Hillary because that where you agree.
leftminded @ 2:
Adios, pinche gringo.
Huckabee and his legion of religious fundamentalists are indeed on the march!! It’s SICK as hell but also very REAL! However, even though this is discusting & outrageous to Democrats, here is something we should really be concerned with:
“Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) now leads challenger Jeanne Shaheen (D), 52% to 41%, in a re-match for U.S. Senate, according to the latest American Research Group survey.”
Sununu (another Bush Fascist) is rapidly putting distance between himself and Shaheen - something that was NOT happening a few months back!
WHY is this happening?…The electorate is loosing confidence in the Democrats, due to the ineffectiveness of Congressional Democrats to confront the lawless Bush Regime. The weak and incompetent leadership of Reid in the Senate and Pelosi in the House is beginning to take its toll. This has got to change and change FAST or Democrats are likely to loose seats in both Houses in November 08. REID AND PELOSI SHOULD STEP ASIDE NOW!!
*sniff*
bye, you big ultranationalist lug!
Wow! Another flat-earther turns his back on Huckabee. Huck must be really far out there in wingnut-ville.
Hopefully Tancredo will be too old to consider a post in the next Republican administration. One more dipwad like GW and none of us will be living indoors
Aww… poor Tommy had to pull out?
Ah well, for every door that closes, another one opens. As far as I know, a certain far-right party in my country has been in constant need for people with “Führungsqualitäten” (leadership skills) for about 60 years now since its leaders are always being harassed by the police for trivialities like beating up foreigners, arson, possession of explosives etc. I’m sure that filling out a truckload of papers necessary for immigration won’t be much of a hurdle for Tommy and he won’t even have to be able to speak German in order to live here.
Come and embrace the lederhosens! ;)
Americans believe in fairness and in the opportunity of America. They understand that we are a nation of immigrants…and that we are all descended from immigrants. The only REAL Americans are Native Americans.
Thus, ALL of us…whether through our ancestors or directly, have been subjected to bigotry.
It appears that only right wing GOP politicians do not share these views.
I’m sure Mutt is thrilled with this racist asshole’s endorsement!
Is the plural of lederhosen lederhosens? It doesn’t sound right.
Trancredo is supporting Romney? Shit, I didn’t really want to vote for Romney and now I have to because this asshole said I should?
I know I know.
So is Duncan Hunter next?
Will anyone miss this racist cocksucker? I think not. Colorado sucks.
What a Great endorsement for Shitt Romney
who is now only pro abortion for Mexicans.
does this mean then that romney then gets the KKK vote? the GOP scramble for the white supremacist vote is always an interesting horserace.
We are training our new dog….I am teaching my kids to take the dog out for a ‘Tancredo’….it’s the only use I have been able to get out of his campaign.
Trancredo is a dumb fuck race baiter. Anybody with half a brain knows that this problem is hugely complex. To say just “kick them out” is so incredibly ignorant is just insane. The problem is pretty easy to solve as well. Complex but easy. Fine the employers, guest worker program, let all the illegals with justifiable guest worker jobs get in line for citizenship, give them green cards. The ones who are hired illegally will go home because the people who hire them will stop hiring them after the employer gets a $10,000 fine or two. Obviously we need immigrants to pick veggies, pluck chickens, wash the hotel laundry, cook the lobster, water the lawns, clean the pools, wash the dishes and maybe even dry wall the new buildings but it has to be proven by the employers that they cannot find Amuricuns to do it. They have 11,000,000 jobs now. Who the hell is going to do these 11,000,000 jobs it you kick their asses out, dumb fuck?
Also these people who are here illegally are not having as much fun as these Lou Dobbs/Tencredo Neanderthals would have you believe. They leave their families and friends and homes to come here and take the shit from us. It is not all fun and games.
Vote Ron Paul. He’ll bring the troops home.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
You have more guts than me. I could never go to Malkin’s site.
If it was me I would have been ROTFLMAO. No reason to feel sorry for their loss Patricia!
This Administration couldn’t sell the Middle East or any foreign country a cup of coffee as all are known as liars. This dude will set in the seat and collect a pay check. Karen Hughes was a laughing joke to all woman around the world and their still laughing at her now. Now Connie’s girlfriend in Isreal can’t wait for that Bush/Connie 9 day visit. Love is in the air. Connie better stop cheating on her girlfriend or there will be hell to pay.
That ought to put the final nail in Bishop Romney’s campaign. Tancredo is effectively telling eveybody that he thinks Romney is as much a psychotic bigot as himself.
Oh, wait… that’s a plus amongst GOPers.
Nevermind.
Romney and Trancredo: the Count Dracula and Igor of the GOP
Captain Kangaroo @ 30:
hugely complex indeed!
it is a way to redirect the insecurity, the economic downturn, the failed economic policies, the financialization of the economy, the end of american global hegemony. the elites have failed the country through their shortsighted economic policies. and, following a historical pattern of deception and lies, they are redirecting the anger, the frustration and the insecurity on an easy target. i truly believe they are horrified at the prospect that americans will wake the fuck up and realize that we have been sold on a ponzi scheme, and demand HUGE changes. and in order to protect the corrupt system they profit from they have created villains out of people just trying to eek by.
Samson- @ 36:
As usual Samson, you’re spot on.
Wonder if it had anything to do with the exposing of his Selective Service Record and also being a racist bigot?
After reading the dates and the classifications Tancredo received, it was evident that anyone with a lukewarm brain, would be able to understand the ruse used by Tommy-Boy in avoiding heading to Vietnam as a buck private in the summer of ‘69, after he had passed his induction physical!
I’ll bet Colorado’s real proud of him!
Blue Lensman @ 37:
:-)
much appreciated Blue Lensman
Tancredo.
In the 1920s and 30s, countless Italian immigrants came to the US for a better life, some arrived WithOut Papers.
I find it extremely hypocrite of Tancredo to hold such a grudge towards illegals since many European migrants from in the early 20th century migrated without proper documentation. WithOut Papers.
In the same time, these same very Republicans in border states give carte blanche to farmers and manufaturers to hire cheap labor illegals. Hypocrites.
RayC @ 24:
Heh, you caught me red-handed. “Lederhosen” [i]is[/i] the plural of the word “lederhose”.
Fil @ 40:
Yep!
Herb@31 Fuck that creepy Ron Paul! Please research this crazy mother fucker’s views on the many other issues. Paul is the fucking back up quarterback and everybody wants him to play because the starting quarterback sucks so bad. He’s a freak!
uncle joe mccarthy @ 6:
Yes, it’s nonsense based on wishful thinking. If anything Tancredo succeeded in taking the republican presidential candidates even farther to the right, especially Romney and Giuliani.
Red Bear Running @ 38:
What? No butt boils? “Hey, don’t wanna sit by you! Another one rides the bus!”
Tree falls in the forest…
Poor Tommy. There won’t be any more microphones for his waxing poetic about anchor babies
I wonder which Mitt would have preferred, Tancredo’s endorsement, or another hemorrhoid?
tan loves him some hair oil!take her down ,deep!
anon @ 9:
How is this not a story on crooks and liars? I’m a little disappointed, NO is on the verge of a riot on the scale of 1992 LA and there’s not a peep from the MSM, the blogs, nothing.
Herb @ 31:
Yes, and then he’ll destroy women’s rights, completely isolate us from the world in everything, and abolish half the Constitution for his racist xenophobic nativist paranoid government-hater friends.
Five seconds of research. Seriously. Google Ron Paul and find out the truth of Ron Paul’s insane views.
Let me see if I get this one straight. Do you dislike Tancredo because he is againts illegal immigration, or because the way he talks about