{"id":9148,"date":"2006-11-24T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9148.html"},"modified":"2006-11-24T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T15:00:01","slug":"tancredo-fears-a-north-american-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/tancredo-fears-a-north-american-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Tancredo fears a ‘North American Union’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact that Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) is not well isn’t groundbreaking news. Neither, for that matter, is the fact that Tancredo is aggressively opposed to the president’s immigration policy.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know, however, just how far over the edge Tancredo was willing to go<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Bush believes America should be more of an idea than an actual place, a Republican congressman told WND in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n

“People have to understand what we’re talking about here. The president of the United States is an internationalist,” said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. “He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that — it’s an idea. It’s not an actual place defined by borders. I mean this is where this guy is really going.”<\/p>\n

Tancredo lashed out at the White House’s lack of action in securing U.S. borders, and said efforts to merge the U.S. with both Mexico and Canada is not a fantasy.<\/p>\n

“I know this is dramatic — or maybe somebody would say overly dramatic — but I’m telling you, that everything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American Union, it’s not something that just is written about by right-wing fringe kooks. It is something in the head of the president of the United States, the president of Mexico, I think the prime minister of Canada buys into it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, far be it for me to defend the president against an unhinged attack from a far-right lawmaker, but does anyone seriously<\/i> believe that the Bush White House wants to dissolve U.S. borders altogether? Anyone, that is, except the wild-eyed congressman from Colorado?
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\nYou know it’s bad when Podhoretz is mocking<\/a> a Republican lawmaker for being nuts.<\/p>\n

I speculate in my book, Can She Be Stopped?<\/i>, that Tancredo will run as a third-party candidate in 2008. Sounds like he’d be perfect to top Lyndon LaRouche’s ticket. If you are serious about the importance of immigration restriction, you’d best be looking for a leader who hasn’t chosen to place himself beyond the political fringe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oddly enough, I think Podhoretz is right about this. Tancredo is talking openly about running for president; Fox News’ Neil Cavuto recently said Tancredo “just might well be<\/i> president”; and Tancredo seems entirely displeased with the Republican line on immigration.<\/p>\n

It’s pretty easy to imagine him running in the GOP primaries, causing a stir, and then running as an independent, in the not-so-great tradition of the Know-Nothing Party of the mid-19th century.<\/p>\n

Frankly, LaRouche isn’t getting any younger, and someone needs to step up to take his place. Tancredo seems just detached from reality enough to fit the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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