Remember Tom Tancredo?

[nw_hunter]

 

Tancredo Could be the next Gov. of Colorado

There is a three-way race going on in the state of Colorado.

The candidate of the Democratic Party is John Hickenlooper, mayor of Denver.Dan Maes is the Republican running. And Tom Tancredo is running on the Constitution Party ticket.
 Tancredo was in Congress for ten years,as a Republican from Colorado and is best known for his fight against illegal immigration.

According to a poll,the Republican Dan Maes has 9% of the vote, Tancredo 43% and Hickenlooper 44% Tancredo, has a darn good chance of winning this election.What a win that would be for Colorado.

"You see" Third party candidates can win. It's possible to beat the establishment, and at this time in the USA, the state governments are the best place to do it.

"I know" He's not in yet..........But he's knocking on the door!

[saddlebum]

It is my understanding that Tancredo couldn't make the deadline requirements or something, so he couldn't run as a Republican. He went to the Constitution Party and they accepted him as a candidate. If he had made it on the Republican ticket he would really be kicking some Democrat butt in the polls. I don't look at him so much as a third party candidate. I see him as a Republican who had to do an end run play to get on the ballot. It seems obvious from those polling numbers that he has all the Republican vote except for the diehard, partyline voters. Hopefully the rest will come to their senses and vote for him next week.

If Maes had any sense he would concede and throw his support to Tancredo.

[nw_hunter]

It is my understanding that Tancredo couldn't make the deadline requirements or something, so he couldn't run as a Republican. He went to the Constitution Party and they accepted him as a candidate. If he had made it on the Republican ticket he would really be kicking some Democrat butt in the polls. I don't look at him so much as a third party candidate. I see him as a Republican who had to do an end run play to get on the ballot. It seems obvious from those polling numbers that he has all the Republican vote except for the diehard, partyline voters. Hopefully the rest will come to their senses and vote for him next week.

If Maes had any sense he would concede and throw his support to Tancredo.

Well! I understand that......After all, he was a Republican Congressman from Co, and mad a run for the Oval Office in 2008, but Tancredo was always a little different from the mainstream Republicans. He was adamant about stopping the illegal flow from Mexico. Something most  Republicans as well as Democrats have no intention of doing.

Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez said he spoke to Tancredo about possible runs for governor or Senate in 2010.

Tancredo spoke at the Constitution Party's national committee meeting on October 23, 2009.

In July 2010, Tancredo warned the two Republican candidates for governor in Colorado that if whoever won the primary was behind in polling the day after the primary and did not drop out, Tancredo would respond by entering the race as the candidate for the American Constitution Party. Tancredo subsequently announced that he was going ahead with plans to run as a Constitution Party candidate.

I don't look for Maes to throw any support to Tancredo if and when he drops out.

[gypsyman]

I wish him alot of luck. I remember checking him out a couple years ago. He was one of my first choice picks, way ahead of McCain. gypsyman

[jlchucker]

A few times, when watching TV, I happened upon CSPAN when Congressman Tancredo was speaking, in the evening, before a bunch of empty chairs.  He's the only congressman I've ever heard that had what I consider to be the equivalent of an insider's view of nonimmigrant and permanent resident petition issues, as concealed from the rest of Congress by layers of Homeland Security bureaucracy. Never mind the obvious illegal alien issues--there are whole bunches of other immigration issues that are being ignored by elected politicians, and covered up by all kinds of folks up and down the food chain.  It was no surprise when Tancredo left Congress, and you can blame both political parties for the mess we are now in.  When these politicians and candidates are talking about "Comprehensive" immigration reform, they are deliberately deceiving US Citizens. Everything they're talking about has been on law on the books since 1986---except of course, amnesty for illegals. And even that is de-facto in place with some programs that give, a year at a time, employment cards to certain groups. Tancredo, as a congressman, exposed all of this, several times, before rows of empty seats. Congress and the press stifled him. Don't believe me?  Read the current Immigration and Nationality Act, and related regulations, then FOIA all of the related memos issued by INS (now ICE and CIS)--if you can ever get your hands on them. I wish Tancredo luck.