Tancredo goes mainstream

nutcases are tough enough to tolerate under ordinary circumstances... when they get elected to congress, it's ever so much worse... and when they become the heroes of the moment, you've just gotta wonder what the hell is going on that somebody like ted tancredo is even given the time of day...

"I would have said to you a month ago or so, 'Yeah, it's definitely the case that I am a pariah,' " Mr. Tancredo, 60, said. "And a lot of people don't want to get near me for fear of being tainted or something."

"But it has changed, and I have had the greatest feeling of respectability lately," he said, laughing. "I joke with people all the time now. I say, 'I've got to find a new issue because I'm way too mainstream.'

"I'm, like, respectable and respected. I mean, it leaves me speechless."

speechless would be wonderful because this is the kind of man we're talking about...

In 2002, he read a front-page article in The Denver Post about parents who were struggling to send their son to college. They were ineligible for financial aid because they were illegal immigrants. Outraged that the family felt comfortable enough to appear in plain view, Mr. Tancredo called the immigration authorities and asked to have them deported.

a good friend of mine was the vice-consul for mexico in denver at the time... he intervened to help the young man and his family and was subsequently slimed by tancredo... it was disgusting and revealed just what kind of despicable being lurks under the veneer of a u.s. congressman...

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