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July 27, 2005 08:00 AM UTC

Tom Tancredo Hit Parade

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  • by: Colorado Pols

The fallout from Tom Tancredo’s suggestion that Muslim holy sites could be targeted in retaliation for terrorism in the United States shows no signs of abating, with national and foreign media closely following local reactions.

Today’s Rocky Mountain News follows his attempts to reconcile with “moderate” Muslim groups that seem willing to bury the hatchet.

He has rejected calls to meet with The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was among the first groups to criticize the remarks.

However, Tancredo has agreed to meet with Muslim leaders he considers more moderate.

Tancredo’s spokesman would not confirm specifics, but one meeting could happen as early as today and include representatives of the Washington, D.C.-based group, Free Muslim Coalition.

The Free Muslim Coalition has a pretty interesting bio, and is either an important component in American hopes to moderate the Arab world or an “astroturf front group for the RNC.”

This group’s rush to Tancredo’s rescue might, based on those connections, imply a level of Republican support for Tancredo well beyond what is generally believed, White House persona non grata rumors notwithstanding. Denver Post columnist Al Knight adds a little more:

Consider the Gallup Poll conducted in early June that asked: “Do you think the United States should or should not make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens of the United States?

The poll showed 79 percent of the non-Hispanic whites questioned opposed policies that would make citizenship easier. More than two-thirds of blacks held the same view. The only group supporting loosened restrictions on illegal immigrants was Hispanics, with 70 percent in favor.

Yet Hispanics, as the fastest-growing minority group in the United States, are key to the election strategy of either party nowand they, combined with the admittedly slim percentages of whites and African-Americans who don’t agree with a crackdown on illegal immigrants, would be abandoned by the GOP at their peril.

Perhaps that’s why Bob Beauprez and Marc Holtzman aren’t commenting.

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  4. “I love the irony that one of Tancredo’s staffers is a Latino.”

    not nearly as ironic as santorum’s spokesman being gay… but close

  5. Amnesty for 20 million illegals? No way  – I know too many people who worked hard and waited thru the green card process – what does that say to them? What does that say to the Asians and others who have waited thru restrictive quotas? And what about the cost to our social and heathcare system? I’ve had it.

    Check out Colorado Alliance for a Secure America – http://www.CASAPAC.com

  6. Julio, what do you think that all Latinos think like you? Why is it ironic that Tancredo has a Latino staffer? People like you are the racists, assuming that the Latino staffer doesn’t have a perfectly logical rationale for working for Tancredo. Yeah, if only all Latinos could be Dumbocrats, taken care of by extroting money out of eeevil corporate types…

    I bet you think Clarence Thomas is a house servant, too – that filth always come from liberals who are rightly insecure with their own rotten doctrine.

  8. Duh: I am always amazed how much dems stereo type minorities. As if minorities are too stupid to think for themselves! But the R’s are racist??

  9. Given Tancredo’s over-the-top pronunciations, I’d say Tancredo is at least a closet racist.  At the very least a “not comfortable when a group of insert minority guys strolls past you one evening” kind of racist, and I’ll admit I feel ashamed of that prejudice myself.

    I don’t hear a lot of “close the Canadian border” rhetoric coming from the Tancredo office…

  10. PhoenixRising you are typical of brainless libs who type before you think. We don’t have 20 million damn Canucks over here speaking French, do we? If we did I’d want to kick those funny accented bastards out too, AY???

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