What a pathetic joke. The one sound bite that Tancredo gave in the debate – and it’s a damnable lie as far as he’s concerned:
He sat up there on the stage and tried to convince the American people that the key for being a successful president (like Ronald Reagan) is “whether you believe in your heart the things that you say.” Here’s the YouTube clip that his own campaign has proudly put on YouTube (until MSNBC yanks it, anyway):
Remember, folks, this comes from a guy who made a solemn pledge to his constituents, contributors, supporters and voters that he would serve only three terms in Congress if elected, and who repeated that pledge over and over and over again, using it to win two more terms in office before cravenly breaking it.
This is a guy who said in October 2001 that keeping his pledge was “the overriding” issue and principle – that integrity mattered more than anything – and who then a year later said he wasn’t going to keep his pledge after all, claiming that “God” had told him to break his pledge.
What a pathetic joke!
Look, this isn’t about being for or against illegal immigration. I can respect someone like Duncan Hunter, who by all accounts did a good job in the debate, and who has a personal record that he can be proud of, and who is almost Tancredo’s mirror image when it comes to illegal immigration (a point that makes Tancredo pretty uncomfortable). Hunter is a member of the Immigration Reform Caucus, just like Tancredo. I would like Tancredo to explain why he wouldn’t even support Hunter if Hunter were to get the Republican nomination.
This is about personal integrity, folks. Other Republican conservative politicians who made personal term limits promises recently – Bob Schaffer, Bill Armstrong, most recently Senator Wayne Allard – kept those promises even if they later came to regret them and to realize that term limits are a bad idea. They all had the same reason for keeping their promises: because part of being a person with integrity is keeping your promises: “whether you believe in your heart in the things that you say.”
Tancredo talks the talk – but he doesn’t walk the walk. He is not deserving of our respect or our vote until he apologizes for breaking his term limits promise, and until he belatedly keeps that promise.
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Dishonesty from Tom Tancredo? Who woulda thunkit?
I think self-imposed term limits are silly, but Tancredo made such a freaking big deal of it back then, you just can’t miss how ridiculously hypocritical it is now.
And he’s taught his proteges well. Look what Tom’s boy has gotten up to.
But he’s right on about illegal immigration and border security.
He was a big disappointment in the debate.
Maybe next time.
Hunter’s also a member of the Immigration Reform Caucus. He is pretty much identical with Tancredo when it comes to immigration reform, minus the nativist code words and bizarre antics that earn Tancredo the support of neo-Nazis.
Tancredo showed his true colors when he said that if he doesn’t win the nomination he won’t endorse any other Republican candidate – not even his fellow Immigration Reform Caucus members Hunter and Ron Paul!
Tancredo Watch is no more than an open border advocacy blog site. You don’t give a damn about anything else but the dissolution of US sovereignty. That’s why Rep Tancredo keeps you up at night, isn’t it?
If he were to mow down a couple of girls while drunk driving like that illegal alien did in Va. Beach, or rape a 12 year old like the illegals in Greeley did just recenty, or highjack a jet full of people and fly them into buildings full of people like the illegals did in 2001, then you’d have something meaningful to criticize.
If the only thing you’ve got on the man is a broken term limits pledge, then may you forever wallow in obscurity.
Wow, yeah self select some crime stats, that really proves your point. Of course, 9/11 hijackers came through our airports rather than over the border, but its cool, your xenophobia is in the right place.
If Tom Tancredo is such a man of the white people, what has he accomplished during his terms in congress? There was a fence that was going to be built over mountain steeps that not even mountain goats could get over, let alone people, but didnt the fence building company get busted for at least the second time on immigration violations?
Of course, when talking about Tancredo we need to always forget that he has hired illegal immigrants to do work on his house. He is a one trick pony that has accomplished nothing in the vein of a Rush Limbaugh – “How can I get people all riled up to re-elect me? Oh! I got it! I’ll talk about the brown horde and barbarians at the gate (something which will never affect them)!” Thanks tancredo, for insuring that racist group memberships are almost as high as their peak in the 20s.
My best friend is a legal immigrant from Kenya. Wanna learn cuss words in Swahili? Talk to my friend about illegal immigration. He is also the blackest man I’ve ever met.
Anything I wrote about borders was in relation to Tancredo Watch. Everything else was in relation to non-enforcement of immigration policy. That said, the blood of everybody killed or injured by an illegal is on the hands of loons like you, Mr. Toodles, and Tancredo Watch.
Lastly, I don’t know anything about the government hiring a company that hires illegals. Should I be surprised? Was Tancredo responsible for the hiring decisions? Is Tancredo responsible for enforcing the laws of the country?
He was definately responsible for hiring a company to finish his basement. The way I heard it is that he discussed the project with a white guy, but was out of town while the work was being done by the illegals. Did you hear different? What did you hear?
PS: Calling immigration-reduction advocates rascist xenophobes is passe. But when reason fails…
You come on with trite BS like the second paragraph of your “yeah sure” post and have the temerity to say that other people aren’t reasonable? Good luck with that.
I don’t consider rape, murder, and drunk driving “trite”. Certainly not as trite as a broken term limits pledge.
Like I said, when reason fails…
Suppose we could magically stop illegal immigration – just halt it so no one is coming in and also deport all the millions of immigrants who are here (and, it should be pointed out, are law abiding save for their immigration status). Is rape, murder, and drunk driving suddenly going to be absent from our nation? Are we going to transform to a land of candy canes and chocolate-covered marshmallows and experience no crime? Or are those things still going to plague us?
If you want me or anyone possessing reason to really view that as the most pressing problem facing America, you better rely on better arguments than such straw men. Here, let me help – there are real fiscal consequences we all pay due to millions of illegal immigrants living in our country. (Although they pay taxes and at least partially pay back into the system.) Start talking about the issue like an informed individual and earn some points.
Dumbass.
Read my site http://tomtancredo.o… and the posts on my Tancredo Watch site http://tancredowatch… and you’ll see that I don’t have much of a dog in the hunt as far as illegal immigration is concerned.
(And I do call it “illegal immigration,” not “undocumented workers” or other mealy-mouthed similes.)
Illegal immigration is a serious problem. It deserves serious public servants giving it serious thought – not blowhard do-nothings like Tom Tancredo.
Answer me this, Jeffie: Why aren’t you supporting Duncan Hunter, who shares a lot of Tancredo’s positions but who – unlike Tancredo – is a decorated Marine, a Congressman with power and prestige, and someone with personal integrity? What does Tancredo have that Hunter doesn’t?
You’re as pathetic and bullying as Tancredo is, in labeling anyone who disapproves of Tancredo’s lack of personal integrity as an “open borders” supporter.
It would be nice to have someone representing us in this District for a change. The only way I was able to get Tom’s attention was to threaten to run against him.