Immigrant Basher Tancredo Won’t Seek Re-Election

Terry Keleher

Immigrant Basher Tancredo Won’t Seek Re-Election

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) has announced that he will not run for re-election for his congressional seat in suburban Denver.

But, his presidential candidacy continues. After repeatedly bashing anyone not white, he still hopes his next job is in the white house.

Now let’s see…who has Tancredo ticked off the most…

Would it be immigrants… for making anti-immigrant pronouncements and policies the centerpiece of his campaigns? His anti-immigrant voting record earned him a career score of 100% from Americans for Better Immigration. He didn’t even want the Denver Public Library to carry Spanish-language reading materials.

Or would if be Blacks… after he proposed pulling federal post-Katrina recovery aid from New Orleans, or for his speaking engagement in South Carolina last year when he used a Confederate flag-draped podium?

Or would it be Muslims… after his 2005 radio interview in which he suggested “taking out Muslim holy sites” as an appropriate retaliation to a hypothetical al-Qaeda nuclear attack on the U.S?

Or, perhaps, it’s anti-racist whites… who’ve got to be truly embarrassed when Tancredo, the grandson of Italian immigrants, illustrates how fully assimilating into U.S. society too often involves fully embracing the social order of white supremacy?

Or maybe his fellow members of Congress… when, earlier this year, he railed against the existence of minority caucuses? “It is utterly hypocritical for Congress to extol the virtues of a color-blind society while officially sanctioning caucuses that are based solely on race. If we are serious about achieving the goal of a colorblind society, Congress should lead by example and end these divisive, race-based caucuses,’ Tancredo asserted.

Tancredo may believe he’s on some kind of quixotic quest to become the champion of a colorblind society. I’m reminded of his determination as I recall the image of him standing alone as the only one of nine Republican presidential candidates who oddly showed up at the last NAACP national convention. His colorblindness must have been so evident that day that he didn’t even need a Confederate flag draped podium.

Posted at 8:44 AM, Oct 30, 2007 in Elections | Permalink | View Comments

Comments

Why did Tancredo get at standing ovation at the NAACP debate?
It was of the fact that he said to the NAACP members there that the illegal aliens from Mexico who are trying to compare themselves to the civil rights movement of the 60's is no comparison.
The United states did not get accused of being anti-white when we had the policy of threatening to nuke Russia if they nuked us.

All Tancredo was saying to the Muslim world is that US cities are as "holy" to us as their Mecca. So therefore, if they nuke our "holy" cities, then your "holy cities" are not off limits.
We are talking legal versus illegal. Are you aware that 70 million Mexican citizens plan to move to the US. There is now info that China will let 100 million leave and come here in the next 10 years.
Do the math.
Lastly, and honestly....I really do not think you understand this whole thing unless you are from a border state. There is nothing like having illegal aliens walking around yelling "We want the continent back"
">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msc719IKjIo
I dare you to watch what they have to say and still believe this is
normal immigration.
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If you can live with this then I will change my mind on the issue!

Regarding Tancredo's anti-New Orleans stance, he just happens to be more open in his lack of support than others, who take the usual stance of failing to offend by failing to acknowledge. This kind of dismissal of the poor and black by the administration in the immediate aftermath of Katrina was really highlighted by the film Desert Bayou ( http://www.desertbayoumovie.com), which I recently saw after reading its endorsement by Al Sharpton, the NAACP, the ACLU, Appleseed, and Donna Brazile.

It was an interesting document of existing racism in America, both in politics and in basic human interaction (as it focuses on 600 African Americans flown to Utah).