Tom Tancredo Quickly Becoming 2018's Hard-Rightie Du Jour

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by: Colorado Pols

Tom Tancredo.

National liberal info-clearinghouse Media Matters for America gave Tom Tancredo a thorough once-over today, making sure journalists nationwide who consult MMFA as a resource (admittedly with a particular leaning) have all the links they need to properly explain Colorado’s GOP far-right gubernatorial candidate-to-beat to a jaded world–those who don’t already know about him, that is:

Tancredo has a long history of racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. He suggested that the United States bomb “the holy sites in Mecca and Medina” in Saudi Arabia; said that Miami, FL, had “become a Third World country” because of its Spanish-speaking population; and claimed that undocumented immigrants are “coming here to kill you and to kill me and our families…”

Tancredo was also a board member of the white nationalist group VDare until he recently stepped down to focus on his political career. He was scheduled to speak at VDare conferences in 2017 until the hosting venues cancelled them when they learned about the group’s white nationalist ideology. After Tancredo announced his candidacy, The Denver Post noted that he had begun “to explore a run after being outraged that Republicans didn’t speak out against the cancellation” of the VDARE conference.

Tancredo has repeatedly defended VDare. He recently claimed, “It is not a white supremacist group. Go on their website, they talk about who they are. They believe in stopping illegal immigration, they believe in preserving the culture, it’s got nothing to do with race.”

Among Democratic campaign strategists sizing up the 2018 GOP gubernatorial field, there’s a significant split emerging: between those who would be delighted for Tancredo to win the GOP nomination anticipating an easy victory, versus others who remember how they tried that with Donald Trump, and now we have President Trump.

Republican insiders have correctly surmised that Tancredo is the candidate with the most built-in support in their primary, and are similarly divided over a combination of pre-existing loyalties and apprehension–versus that fleeting hope of Tancredo tapping a Trumpian populist vein and riding a gusher of low-information ichor to glorious victory.

Either way, he’s the one everybody is talking about. And we expect that suits Tancredo perfectly.

17 thoughts on “Tom Tancredo Quickly Becoming 2018’s Hard-Rightie Du Jour”

bullshit! says:

January 18, 2018 at 2:09 pm

I've been saying it for some time now, this is Tom Tancredo's moment.

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1. RepealAndReplace says:
  
  January 18, 2018 at 2:18 pm
  
  Not according to Moderatus. Fluffy says that Tancredo is a creature of the left because we are all afraid of Cynthia.
  
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  1. Moderatus says:
    
    January 18, 2018 at 3:37 pm
    
    I believe Pols tried to respond to my critique above. To them I say, elevating a bad person to strike at your enemies can indeed backfire, and in more ways than one. Be very careful who you try to push on the Republican base. Better yet, leave it to us.
    
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    1. Pseudonymous says:
      
      January 18, 2018 at 3:54 pm
      
      Sure. Look at what happened with Hillary and Trump.
      
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    2. unnamed says:
      
      January 18, 2018 at 3:57 pm
      
      Yeah. You guys do a great job of picking the worst candidates on your own. Like that fascist guy in the WH who lost the popular vote fair and square, and the pedophile who lost a Senate race in Alabama. If you guys pick Tanc, it's because he is who you want as your standard-bearer.
      
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      1. spaceman65 says:
        
        January 19, 2018 at 9:13 am
        
        Let's hope that whatever standard-bearer they choose becomes a pall bearer for the party.
        
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        Moderatus says:
        
        January 19, 2018 at 12:27 pm
        
        Your violent language is troubling.
        
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        Diogenesdemar says:
        
        January 19, 2018 at 12:44 pm
        
        Someday, Fluffy, when you’re old enough, Grammy will sit down with you and explain that everything eventually passes away . . .
        
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        unnamed says:
        
        January 19, 2018 at 12:51 pm
        
        I didn't know "pall-bearers" is violent language. Stop being such a snowflake.
        
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    3. MADCO says:
      
      January 18, 2018 at 6:40 pm
      
      Don Maeze, secret agent man, was the single best Republican ever nominated to lose in Colorado. ever
      
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      1. mamajama55 says:
        
        January 18, 2018 at 7:06 pm
        
        He's still my go-to poster boy for teaching kids why plagiarism is a bad idea.
        
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        Voyageur says:
        
        January 18, 2018 at 7:08 pm
        
        Maes wasn't the plaigiarist. Scooter was.
        
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        mamajama55 says:
        
        January 18, 2018 at 7:37 pm
        
        Yes. McInnis was Maes' opponent.
        
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        JeffcoDemo says:
        
        January 18, 2018 at 10:20 pm
        
        I get the confusion, it took me and a friend (an elected official) 3-4 minutes to remember the name of that thaibow wannabe senate candidate. The local republicans can't help but put out damaged candidates, The list is lengthy.
        
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MADCO says:

January 18, 2018 at 6:40 pm

Don Maeze, secret agent man, was the single best Republican ever nominated to lose in Colorado. ever

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1. RepealAndReplace says:
  
  January 18, 2018 at 6:44 pm
  
  To date
  
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mamajama55 says:

January 19, 2018 at 7:22 pm

VDARE has 779 articles about, interviews with, or positive mentions of Tom Tancredo on their website, going back to 2002.The common theme is Tom Tancredo promoting conspiracy theories about Mexicans and Muslims taking over America.

Good luck disassociating with that record, Tank.

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