Advice from a washed-up politician to a never-will-be.
Me too.
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This is like Mao telling somebody that when he talks about the capitalists to go easy on the ârunning dogâ stuff.
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Itâs not every day you see one cartoon character advising another with a straight faceâŚyou know things are dire when TT is involved in any kind of serious conversationâŚthe man is a discredited harlequin many times overâŚ
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If Tancredo thinks Trump is extreme, Iâve got to believe Trump is way far off the rails!
Yeah, for years the GOP has managed to perfect dog whistle remarks, which allowed them to act innocent and accuse anyone who called them on it of playing the race card, but Trump is upsetting this. It was perhaps too subtle.
However much weâre looking on this with glee though, Iâd rather not see anyone making such divisive comments and getting rewarded for it. He might be just revealing what many people think, but this kind of talk ratchets the civic discourse towards hate. Itâll just make things harder for individual immigrants.
Tancredo is a real blast from the past, especially in the otherwise Republican year of 2010.
2010 was a disaster for Democrats all over the country, except for Colorado. That year, a stone nut-job Teabagger named Dan Maes got the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
It wasnât supposed to go that way. The nomination was supposed to go to Scott McInnes, except that McInnes was found to have been paid $300 large for some stuff on water law that heâd cribbed from a now-Colorado Supreme Court justice. And this was found out right before the state nominating convention. Angry Republicans went for Maes in margins just big enough to beat McInnes.
It got better.
As time went on, Maes proved himself to be kooky. First, Maes got his ass fined $17,500 by the Federal Elections Commission for submitting a bogus mileage report for $42 large.
Just as that was dying down, the Denver Post went after Maesâ touted business acumen and discovered that he was so inept, he was barely above the poverty line.
Then the unintentional comedy came in, Maes slammed Hickenlooper,âwho would go on to become Governorâfor supporting a bicycle program that Maes claimed was some kind of plot by the United Nations. Maes never did live that down.
By then, the Grand Poohbah of Colorado Republican politics, Dick Wadhams, sent Maes a letter saying that the state GOP had written off the gubernatorial race as a lost cause and would you please resign because we are scared that you will drag down our senatorial nominee as well? An astonished and then infuriated Maes says, âno.â
It gets even better. He gets nailed for claiming he was an undercover cop when he never was. Now everybodyâs going, âWhere the fuck did THIS guy COME from?â
About this time, Tancredo comes in from the wings to REALLY fuck things up. He announces a third-party challenge for governor. This really frightens Wadhams, because not only could their senatorial chances get croakedâwhich they didâbut Tancredo might just siphon away enough votes from Maes to drop the Republican party line on the ballot down with âThe Rent is too Damn High!â party. Now itâs Tancredoâs turn to stubbornly refuse. Wadhamsâ mouth is pretty dry about now.
When I explained this to another Democratic friend of mine, she was just beside herself with fiendish glee, watching Maesâ vote totals. He had to have 10% and EVERYBODY in the party, even his fellow Teabaggers, were deserting him in droves. Sixty days before the election, Hickenlooper led Maes by 11 points and the gap was increasing
Maes made it, but not by a lot. He finished with 11.49% The entire affair made Wadhams get out of politics for good, saying he was âtired of the nuts.â
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Tancredo was a popular hate-merchant while in Congress, traveling to GOP events to preach his message of fear and loathing. Terrible Tom advising Trump to tone it down? Hahaha hahaha! Heâs just looking to protect his franchise. Anti-immigrant speeches are how he currently earns his income.
Kind of ironic the previous #1 xenophobe in the party is telling the new #1 to cool it. Too bad we have a media that tries to pretend these guys are normal, but it is fun to watch.
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Yep. The GOP implosion in Colorado in 2010 was memorable.
It seemed everywhere you looked, a Republican was rhetorically blasting his own toes off. That senatorial candidate I menttioned earlier? When a Birther said something about Obama being a Kenyan, Buck was caught on a hot mic telling a member of his staff âKeep those nuts away from me.â
Nailed it !
Itâs like Mitt Romney telling you youâve crossed the line when you suggest the poor need to work more hours.
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Sounds horrifyingly familiar.
And itâs not just the poorâŚ
He should start a go find me page, for the list of people who Tancredo ever fooled with his artful speeches. Iâd put up five bucks if he could name ten.
Tancredo assumes Trump would know the concept âTactââŚ
Tancredo is right about Miami. Been there lately? Most signs are in Spanish, with a little English thrown in occasionallyâŚ