Word: tancredos
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...Roald Dahl’s book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:” There is nothing particularly spectacular about him, but the rest of the children vying for the grand prize are too insufferable to ever be chosen. To begin with, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownback and other ideologues on the fringe of the GOP are each excessive in their own ways, whether overzealous in hopes of a smaller government, more stringent immigration laws, or the criminalization of abortion. They are the Augustus Gloops of this election: Just as Gloop was eliminated from the contest...
Four days before the next debate between the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, their supporters at Harvard sharpened their teeth in a practice debate of their own. And just as in the upcoming Univision debate, Tom Tancredo was not represented. Advocates of six Republican contenders pitched their candidates in a debate held in Sever Hall last night. Bucking the national trend, Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas) drew the greatest support. Of the roughly thirty students in attendance, half were cheering for the libertarian congressman. The chair of Harvard Students for Ron Paul, Pedro L. Teixeira Jr. '09 drew sustained...
...already in trouble for offering college scholarships to deserving children of illegal immigrants in Arkansas. "We never should grind our heel in the face of a child," he has said. But if a nativist revolt is brewing, his fellow Republicans are handing out the pitchforks. Peripheral candidates like Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter set the slime flowing in the presidential campaign. The theme was soon picked up by Mitt Romney, who seems incapable of finding an issue where integrity trumps expediency. Romney has made illegal immigration the target of recent campaign ads. He has used the issue as a cudgel...
...popularity of quasi-nativist candidates like Pat Buchanan certainly reflect a similar “anti-other” attitude. In the past, however, xenophobia has largely been relegated to a portion of the Republican base. Today it seems to have crossed party lines. When Republican Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo says things like “[immigrants] are coming here to kill you, and you, and me, and my grandchildren,” we must wonder if this latest incarnation of anti-immigrant feeling is more intense and widespread than ever...
...lectures, is that there is something very corrupt, very Halliburton-Blackwatery going on with our military-industrial complex, and that can attract some pretty weird followers. At the Iowa State event, a student stood outside in a tricornered hat and Revolutionary War-era suit, ringing a bell. Representative Tom Tancredo, another long-shot G.O.P. candidate, tells me that after a debate in New Hampshire, one of his staffers walked up to a guy in a shark costume and asked him if he was a Ron Paul supporter. "No. They're all nuts," replied the shark. "I'm just...