Tom Tancredo is a former RepublicanCongressman (Colorado). He ran for president in 2008, but didn’t make much ofan impact. His main schtick, then as now, was to end all immigration (legal andillegal) to the US (including criticizing the Denver Public Library system forpurchasing reading materials written in Spanish on the grounds that puttingSpanish-speakers in a ‘linguistic ghetto’ would delay their integration intoAmerican society), and for receiving political contributions from theFederation for American Immigration Reform.He has also been linked toThe League of the South.During his garbled opposition to the appointmen of Sonia Sotomayor to theSupreme Court, he managed to claim that she is a racist, citing herHispanic-American background as evidence. His defense of Robert Bork’stheocratic views is, if possible,even less coherent.
Tancredo is also a notable proponent oftorture, and invoked, during the debates in the Republican primaries,Jack Bauer as a model of how to deal with terrorism suspects.He also advocated nuking Mecca in the event of more terrorist attacks againstthe US. He is a major teabagger, who currently represents theConstitution Party.
These features are arguably not sufficientto qualify him for an entry. So to make it clear to everyone that he is indeeda loon, Tancredo pointed out that “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, whydon't we just send him back?” Yes, he is a birther, and he doesclaim that Obama is a Muslim.Furthermore, in a 2007 debate among the ten candidates for the 2008 RepublicanPresidential nomination, Tancredo was one of three who raised their hands whenasked if anyone did not believe in the theory of evolution.(The others were Brownback and Huckabee.) He expands on his viewshere (morehere).
Tancredo is also the founder of TeamAmerica PAC, and a notable abortion opponent, agreeing that the U.S. SupremeCourt should repeal the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, adding that it would be “thegreatest day in this country's history.” On gay rights, his position is summedup by: “You have to remember that we are always just one kooky judge away fromactually having homosexual marriage forced on all the rest of us [no, Tom, noone will force you to marry gay] […] Therefore, we need, we absolutely have tohave, a constitutional amendment that defines marriage.”
A list of his most notable achievments canbe foundhere.
Diagnosis: complete moron; dangerous.
Tancredoattacks mutliculturalism with a fake Ben Franklin quote.
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ReplyDeleteTancredoclaims that the GOP will win the 2014 election by demanding Obama's impeachment. Healso warns that Obama is more dangerous than any other threat the US faces as a nation.
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