June 17, 2013 09:02 AM UTC

Tancredo Rages Against Federal Immigration Reform

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• by: Colorado Pols

In a column for famously hard-right World Net Daily, GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo writes:

Genuine border security will not be a part of the bill.

Sadly, this kabuki dance around fake amendments is what passes these days for high-level debate in the United States Congress. And, of course, the outcome is tightly scripted and well understood by all parties. The “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill will pass the Senate by a comfortable margin and will be hailed as a “huge bipartisan victory for immigration reform.”

All that has been predictable for many months, and we should not be shocked by any of it. The Senate Democratic leaders, principally Sen. Schumer and his Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Marco Rubio, [Pols emphasis] have played their cards well, aided as always by a cooperative mainstream media and dutiful K-Street Chorus…

But there is another, more intricate and more dishonest farce taking shape in the Republican-controlled House. Republicans in the House could stop the sellout of national sovereignty and the rule of law, but instead, they are planning to join the sellout. They are preparing to ignore the 2012 Republican Platform, the polls and the strong preferences of grass-roots Republicans to capitulate to the Senate in all essential features of an amnesty bill.

On and on Tancredo goes in his trademark ranting style in this column, vehemently opposing any kind of immigration reform that isn't predicate on "border security," which would result in this incredibly bad thing he calls "amnesty" for those villanous "illegal aliens." Tancredo, if there any readers who don't yet know the man, doesn't do politically correct–as you can see from his gleeful employment of both "illegal" and "aliens." Far from a solution to a decades-old problem enjoying overwhelming popular support, Tancredo is 100% certain that passing anything like this federal immigration reform bill means "a new wave of illegal entries across our borders."

It's classic Tancredo. The Republican base loves this message, and loves Tancredo, even as he makes Republican strategists looking at America a generation from now cringe. As you can see, Tancredo is very much undeterred by your propellerheaded yackety-yack about "demographics."

He's running for Governor of Colorado, and his highest-profile opponent is mired in ethics controversies. Recent polling shows Tancredo, for all his warts, the most competitive of any challenger to Gov. John Hickenlooper.

The ingredients of a perfect storm.