File this somewhere between “no” and “hell no,” though the Denver Post feels obliged to report:
Former congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said he was hit with an avalanche of interest in his possible gubernatorial candidacy after a Douglas County supporter set up “The Draft Tom Tancredo for Governor” Facebook page Monday afternoon.
On Monday night, Tancredo wasn’t saying whether he is in or out, however, but noted that time was ticking away.
“If we’re going to do this thing, it’s going to have to be soon,” he said, reached on his cellphone. “Gosh, I’ve got to talk to a lot of people.”
Tancredo said he had been a strong supporter of Josh Penry’s.
“I had said that if Josh Penry wasn’t in the race, I would be,” said the Republican firebrand who is perhaps best known for his unflinching anti- illegal-immigration stance. “I know if I got into this thing, most of the party elite would not be happy.”
Oh, we can think of a few people who would be very, very happy to see Tom Tancredo jump into the Governor’s race–none of them are Republicans, though. We really don’t have the time or inclination to list all the reasons why Tancredo would be an unqualified, set-them-back-decades catastrophe as the GOP nominee for Governor. Fortunately for everybody, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of it happening. And if it somehow does happen? Call the election that day.
That said, dissatisfaction with the sudden withdrawal of Josh Penry from this race within the Republican rank-and-file does seem to be a building story. What are the people who spent the last few months scumbagging Scott McInnis at every turn going to do now? Any ‘groundswell’ of support for Tancredo is more about McInnis’ weakness with the base than anything else.
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He’s the “people’s choice”.
Draft Tom Tancredo! Tom save our nation! It’s all you, man, all you.
This informatoion very interesting for my
A spammer got cut off in mid comment. Oh, the karma.
in bed with illeagle immigrants, don’tcha know.
There will be a table at the Lincoln Day dinner — hope to see you all there!
Vote Tom Tancredo – he has the support of every Democrat in the state (at least in the primary).
does anyone think Tancredo has a chance? First off, he’d have to give up his hardcore fight against illegal immigration. You can’t be the Governor and concentrate on one thing, which is what he does very well and will continue to do.
Plus he has no money of his own, he walks off television interviews when he feels like it and he’s just not really a nice guy…he’s right, the party elite wouldn’t like it and if they don’t want you, it’s not gonna happen.
I just don’t see it happening.
But he sure would make things fun, all the while reminding people of the new base on which Republicans are trying to rebuild their party.
making money now and anything that keeps him in the news helps him get bookings. Expect him to make a few noises about contemplating a run but, as much as we Dems may dream, the guy isn’t about to run for governor. He’s into earning, not spending.
We can still hope for him to say negative things we can use later about whoever does become the R candidate. Although coming from Tanc, who’d take any slurs seriously? Nope. Looks like nothing much in this for Dems.
Don’t you want to see him try to get $$$ from the legislature to build a big fence along the Colorado-New Mexico state line?
Maybe he’ll build a fence around the San Luis Valley too.
not a lot of love for the Millionaire Lawyer-Lobbyist, whose name no one can spell.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1…
No Rinos dammit ! Only the purest of the pure can save us from the Rinos, and take back our state and our country !
Stand for what you believe in ! Run, Tanc, Run !
This really needs to happen. McInnis is wayyyyyyyyyy too moderate for Colorado. Or at least he used to be before he flip flopped. At least with Tanc, we know he’s a true red-blooded American who will fight for AMERICAN’S rights.
Those comments really woke me up… by making me laugh so hard I nearly fell off my chair. Now I’m awake. And laughing. Could you ask for more from a Governor?
He can take his campaign slogan from “Team America”:
“AMERICA: F*** YEAH!”
third verse!
No danger of being mistaken for a bunch of (heaven forbid) eggheads at the Sentinal.
Sentinel. 😉
I know TW personally, and his main beef was with Tancredo violating his term limits pledge when he ran for Congress.
However, http://www.tomtancredo.org is still up, and while dated still chronicles Tancredo’s previous violations of the voters’ trust.
There, now at least a couple people on this site will decide to support him.
We do what we can to forward to the cause. 🙂
(Head in palm).
this is our chance to return to our conservative roots ! If anything is going to wake up and energize the “values voters” base like me this is it. I heard Sarah is already putting in a call to push Tanc to run.
Team America ! Fuck yeah !
You thought of it independently. It really writes itself. Tom would be foolish not to run with it.
Definitely NSFW. Do not watch if you are offended by profanity.
can I steal your tag line?
I suppose Scott McInnis is happy today, but I wonder if Penry really did him a favor dropping out so early. Scott’s campaigning skills seem rather rusty to me. He could have used a brisk primary to tune him up. Ritter isn’t a fabulous campaigner by any means, but he has much more recent experience.
And it’s not just that he’ll enter the general rusty, he’ll also enter with the expectation that it will be given to him – like the primary was.
I support a Tom Tancredo campaign. We need a new Palin. Sorry guys, I guess I’m just bored.
GO TOM, GO!
I believe this FaceBook posting on his fan page has a typo which I corrected in the title…
That is so funny.
UR LIKE, SOOOOO AWESOME TOM!!!