December 19, 2007 4:02 PM
Tancredo promises "major" news -- but will he drop out?
Rep. Tom Tancredo has fueled widespread speculation about his future plans by scheduling a “major” announcement about his campaign at a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday afternoon.
Numerous news outlets were guessing that Tancredo might drop out of the contest just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses. (Like THIS, or THIS, or THIS, or more.)
But Bill Salier, who leads Tancredo's campaign in the first-caucus state, declined to comment on the purpose of the press conference. Tancredo and various campaign officials did not return messages seeking comment.
Tancredo has been stuck in the bottom tier of the Republican presidential polls, even as rival campaigns have tried to match some of his hard-line rhetoric opposing illegal immigration.
He first began flirting with a White House bid in 2005, saying that, while he did not expect to be elected president, he hoped to force other candidates to adopt his positions.
He has pinned his hopes on two early, springboard states: Iowa, where the caucuses will be held on Jan. 3, 2008, and New Hampshire, which holds the first primary five days later.
Still, he has been stuck in single-digits in the GOP polls. Meanwhile, in recent days, two close allies in the immigration reform movement have endorsed other candidates.
First, Jim Gilchrist, founder of The Minuteman Project, announced he was backing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Then Tancredo’s friend and close congressional ally, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, endorsed former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee.
Tancredo has long been a magnet for controversy over his harsh rhetoric on immigration, or his statements that the United States should threaten to bomb Muslim holy sites as a way to deter radical Islamic terrorists.
He has pushed the envelope even further with television advertisements during the presidential campaign.
One used gruesome photographs and the sound of an exploding bomb to warn about terrorists sneaking across unguarded borders. Another ad showed bloody bodies lined up after gangland assassinations, blaming illegal immigration for violence by Latin American street gangs.
Critics ripped the ads as desperate fear-mongering, and called Tancredo a xenophobe or racist – charges he has long denied.
December 23, 2007
1:18 AM
M.E. writes:
Hey "Rocky,"
Thanks for the tip.
http://www.politicswest.com/14939/m_e_sprengelmeyer_superstar
December 19, 2007
6:22 PM
Brittanicus writes:
DO YOU LIKE YOUR TAX DOLLARS SUPPORTING PARIAH EMPLOYERS, WHO HIRE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS? Do you want yet another multi-millionaire in office? The whole spectrum of tired, power hungry lawmakers are just out their to feather their nests even more! Few are underdogs like Tancredo, hunter and Ron Paul! Yet I know we are going to get more of the same? Illegal foreign national should not be in America, in the first place? Of course if the pariah business community wants to pay for hospitalisation, housing, education, food stamps and all the other free-loading payouts, dumped on the overwealmed U.S. taxpayer, then by all means allow a path to citizenship? However, this doesn't mean 'Carte blanche.' AMNESTY? As a taxpayer I do not want to pay for illegal alien welfare; compliments of the open-border lobby.
This compassionate land called America better wake up, or will be inviting wave upon wave of more foreign aliens who will leach the blood, out of the American taxpayer. We are already paying through the nose, for the Imperial Bush "nation building."! when are we going to realise "Charity starts at home." We have our own poor and destitute, and yet daily our Public Servants (politicians) pander to millions of foreign nationals squatting here!
Already the majority of incompetant Democrats and Republicans have amended President Bush two-tier border fence. That means it may never get built? Thanks to Kay Bailey Hutchinson R-TX) and her carefully concealed amendment, hidden in a 3,500 page appropriations document that hardly of them will read. They have played games with the American taxpayer who are squeezed for money in a war, that most foreign nations won't touch, so (as always) we get stuck with the bill. Our countries borders remain exposed to drug smugglers, a incessent stream daily of cheap slave labor and the ominious presence of disasterous jihardist terrorist who out to deliver an attack against innocent U.S.citizens.
Out of all the main contenders for the Oval Office, Sen. Obama has just over a million dollars in assets. The rest of the crowd are multi-millionaires who probably owe giant favors to the corporate cartels. We are fools to place any of them in the White House, because they are impassive to the ordinary man or women. Starting with the Iowa Caucases, we may find that citizens are not going to pay for the hired cheap help of illegal aliens anymore. They are just not going to pay for the predator employers bill, that has its own welfare system.
Remember our prisons are crammed with hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, who you are forced to pay for their room and board? That fence between Mexico and our Nation must be built, as it is a great deterent and will impede the majority of itinerant workers looking for a taxpayer handout. If we do not send them home through self-deportation or "Attrition" we will be even more taxed, as the next human tsunami invades our land. Demand your Senators co-author "THE SAVE ACT" Use the free-faxing buffet at numbersusa.
Demand your Senators co-author "THE SAVE ACT" Use the free-faxing buffet at numbersusa. Demand that they re-instate, the full length of our sovereignty border fence. Demand it NOW! Otherwise whose going to pay for the next million of poor illegal foreigners. It surely isn't going to be contractors or big business owners?
December 19, 2007
4:59 PM
rocky writes:
The post isn't speculating:
http://www.politicswest.com/2008_election/15436/denver_post_tancredo_plans_withdraw_presidential_race