Tancredo, Bush Foe on Immigration, Poised as Republican Spoiler Listen

[Judi Lynn]

Tancredo, Bush Foe on Immigration, Poised as Republican Spoiler Listen

Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Right-wing populists have bedeviled American political parties in presidential elections for more than 30 years. These include George Wallace in the 1960s and 70s, Patrick Buchanan in the 90s, and may include another such spoiler in 2008: Republican Tom Tancredo.

A U.S. representative from Colorado, Tancredo is the most vocal opponent in Congress of President George W. Bush's proposal to overhaul immigration policy with a guest worker program and has earned the enmity of Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove. Tancredo also has criticized the growth of federal spending under Bush and the lack of spending controls on the more than $62 billion appropriated to the Hurricane Katrina recovery.

Tancredo said he hopes one of the more establishment candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 will adopt his anti-immigration stance. He recently met with Republican Virginia Senator George Allen, a possible presidential aspirant, to discuss immigration and said he came away mildly encouraged.

If none of the candidates make immigration a prominent part of the presidential debate in 2008, Tancredo said he would enter the race to draw attention to the issue.
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Tom, on the right with _{Bush, Tom on the range, Tom tracking them down....}

[Jackpine Radical]

1. WooHoo. Go, Tom!!

Siphon off all those Angry White Males. Get 25% of the Puggy vote in 2008. Tancredo + the death of Diebold should give us 2008 in a walk.

[primavera]

2. Yeah, I've thought that too

I've kind of hoped that mad dog Tancredo would make a national spectacle of himself by running and showing the American public just exactly where Repuke values lead one. Then again, I thought much the same thing when the shrub wrested the Repuke nomination from McCain in 2000 and look where that got us.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I don't think Tancredo can make it because he doesn't have

any Big Money behind him. The Powers Behind the Throne want cheap labor, so they're not gonna back this nutjob. Rightwing "populists" never go anywhere unless they toe the Bilderberg line. (Maybe leftwing populists don't either, actually. Dean comes to mind....)