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March 13, 2014 09:39 AM UTC

Tancredo Hoping to Ride a Joint into the Governor's Office

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Dramatization. Tom Tancredo does not smoke weed.
Dramatization. Tom Tancredo does not smoke weed.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo thinks he can ride his support for pot legalization into the governor's office.

That's what he said Tuesday on Michael "Heck've a job" Brownie's KHOW talk show, when Brown asked him how he can "grab the unaffiliated” voters in the general election, if he wins GOP primary.

Tancredo: "One thing, admittedly, makes a lot of my more conservative friends mad at me, and that is my support for Amendment 64 [pot legalization]. But that translated into a lot of support among people who aren’t necessarily the typical Republican voter."

No one pointed out that it's Tancredo's conservative friends who will be deciding whether he wins the Republican primary and is able to enter into an orbit where unaffiliated voters matter to him. [Then we can discuss how it plays among suburban women.]

Tancredo's other explanation for his popularity among unaffiliated voters: "I am sort of the anti-Republican Republican."

Ironically, being the anti-Republican Republican might help Tancredo among Republicans, but still, I was waiting for Brownie to ask, "Do you think unaffiliated voters might possibly remotely maybe find other reasons not to like you, like the fact that you're anti-choice (anti-abortion, even for rape), anti-undocumented immigrant (round 'em up and throw 'em out), anti-environment (global warming is "Bull"), etc., etc. (and that's a big fat etcetera, etcetera)."

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10 thoughts on “Tancredo Hoping to Ride a Joint into the Governor’s Office

  1. If only someone would make an updated version of "Three's Company," we could ship this demented old racist coot to Cali to live out his days playing the new "Mr. Roper."

  2. Journalists should ask Tancredo if he knows the difference between "stupid" and "high"?!?  

    There isn't enough THC in all of Colorado to fool the electorate into voting for this clown!

  3. I remember when Tom Tancredo was anti-cannabis legalization, before he was pro-cannabis legalization. One can only hope he evolves on other issues, as well.

    1. One can hope for many things regarding Tanc.  Mine is that when he eventually loses this race (whether in the primary or in the general), he finally rides off into the sunset, never to darken our doors again, to borrow a phrase from Pres. Bush's staff.

  4. Of course, on this issue, Tancredo did find himself in the same camp as the NAACP and the Democratic Party.

    Hickenlooper, on the other hand, was on the same side as John Suthers and Ken Buck.

    1. Well it's certainly better for successful center right candidate Hick to be seen by centrist voters as not 100% in line with the rest of his party than it is for Tanc to be seen by the GOTP base as closer than 10 foot pole range to the NAACP and the Dems. And I love bullshit's observation about what Tanc's target demo on this issue must be.

      To clarify, Tancredo is gunning for the stoned hater vote. O–kay. – See more at: http://coloradopols.com/diary/55437/tancredo-hoping-to-ride-a-joint-into-the-governors-office#comment-542500

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