Title: Tancredo Takes Demagoguery To A Whole New Level Source:
Carpetbagger Report URL Source:http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/ Published:Nov 13, 2007 Author:Carpetbagger Report Post Date:2007-11-13 10:57:41 by Brian S Keywords:None Views:400 Comments:12
In 2004, it was fairly common for Bush and Cheney to tell voters that voting for John Kerry might put their lives at risk. The VP once famously said a Democratic president would mean we’d be “hit again,” just like on 9/11.
But leave it to Tom Tancredo to run an ad dramatizing an actual terrorist attack in a campaign commercial — complete with a loud explosion at the end — implicitly telling voters that unless they vote for him, immigrants might kill their family.
That this commercial might actually appear on Iowa television screens is perhaps the most twisted news of the presidential campaign thus far. “Tancredo: Before It’s Too Late” — perhaps the most jaw-dropping self-parody in modern times.
To be sure, I suspect this a desperate stunt, intended to help get Tancredo some attention. Right now, he’s a third-tier afterthought, perceived as a xenophobic nut. But with this ad on the air, people will know he’s a xenophobic nut, and everyone will be talking about how painfully insane a xenophobic nut he really is.
When you’re struggling with 2% support, there’s apparently no such thing as bad publicity.
Illegal immigration (and unrestricted legal immigration) is one of the biggest problems facing America, but not for the reasons that idiot Tancredo tells people. It's not about a "terrorist threat," the real issue is about turning the US into a Third World economy and society. "Terrorism" is way down on the list of realistic problems, it ranks about as high as the threat posed by meteors.
All Tancredo is doing is turning a legitimate issue and cause into something ridiculous, and providing fodder for the open borders lobby of Kennedy, McCain, and Bush. He deserves his 1% in the polls.
All Tancredo is doing is turning a legitimate issue and cause into something ridiculous, and providing fodder for the open borders lobby of Kennedy, McCain, and Bush. He deserves his 1% in the polls.
That ad is so stupid and insulting to one's intelligence that it could easily be mistaken for parody.
I am not a big follower of this issue- but a buddy of mine is very much against illegal immigration and up on this topic- and he has always thought Tancredo was an establishment putupjob on the issue- to try and make those concerned about it to look like idiots and fools and whackos. After seeing this ad- I have to wonder if had Tancredo pegged all along.