Tancredo at the NAACP Convention
Word is that longshot Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo of Colorado got loud applause (correction: a standing ovation) from those assembled for appearing at the NAACP convention in Detroit yesterday.
It’s not reported what the reaction was to this part of his speech, but it deserved another standing O:
He called amnesty for illegal immigrants “a slap in the face to everyone who came here the right way.”
Tancredo said the wages of black workers suffer because of illegal immigration.
“I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know,” he said. “Perhaps no other group has been more adversely affected by this crisis than the African-American community.”
If he didn’t, Tancredo also should have mentioned the impact of illegals on African-American and teenage unemployment.
No word on whether any of the supposedly compassionate, caring Democratic candidates made any attempt to link illegal immigration with low wages for African-Americans and teens (I’ll bet not), or instead played the tired, irrelevant race card (bet they did).
If so many voters weren’t congenitally addicted to pulling the “R” or “D” levers regardless of the quality or positions of the candidates, a candidate like Tancredo (note: I’m not saying he’s the answer; I don’t know enough about him to judge that) might have a chance.
Tom Tancredo would make a good president. He’s dealing with illegal immigration in Colorado every day, has seen first-hand what the negative effects are.
Rep. Tancredo is possibly the only sane member of Congress. After reading the book “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington,” I contacted author Paul Sperry asking if he knew anyone in government that was untainted by islamic (CAIR or Saudi) or mexican money, and Tancredo was one.
That’s a bandwagon I’ll jump on in a New York minute.
In 2005, on a Florida radio station interview, Tancredo said if we suffer a nuclear islamic terror attack, we should ‘bomb Mecca.’
I like my candidates with those big rocky mountain oysters. That’s ‘cajones’ for those of you from Juarez.
Comment by Connect the Dots — July 13, 2007 @ 9:23 pm
I think he would make a great president, but he is unfairly seen as a Dennis Kucinich type.
Comment by Ben Keeler — July 14, 2007 @ 4:50 pm