Run Tom, Run! Colorado, Presidential Politics, Republicans

Images this: an intense anti-immigration candidate that will rally primary voters across the country, spew hate toward the Republican front-runners, thereby fracturing the GOP and delivering Democrats the 2008 election. 

It may be my personal fantasy, but one of my deepest political fantasies is crossing that illegal border called reality:

Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado is making official his interest in a presidential run.       

Tancredo, a Littleton Republican known for his hard-line stance on immigration policies, said today he's filing the paperwork to form a presidential exploratory committee...

Tancredo has said he is interested in a presidential run to highlight the immigration issue, and that he wants to challenge the views of candidates he finds objectionable, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. McCain was one of the sponsors of the Senate's immigration reform bill last year. It would have created a guest worker program and a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Tancredo backed the House bill, which would have criminalized living in the country illegally.

This set-up should be one of the must watch events of 2008.  I'm looking forward to Tom adding a little bit of his personal flamboyance to the race. 

Tom, I know you don't care one bit but here it is - I just don't want you running in the GOP primary - I want you in the general election as an independent. 

Nothing would make this Western Democrat happier.

Landon Mascareñaz | January 16, 2007 | Comment on This Post (2 so far) Permalink: Run Tom, Run! Colorado, Presidential Politics, Republicans

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