Tancredo Endorses Romney?! Say It Isn’t So!
Friday, December 21st, 2007Whatever positive I’ve said about Tancredo, I take it all back. This is about as bad as Buchanan naming a woman with a history of mental illness as his running mate in 2000:
We’re down to Ron Paul or worse than Bush.
The last thing he wanted was for his continuing candidacy to “contribute to the nomination” of someone whose record on immigration was abysmal, he said, citing Huckabee and Arizona Sen. John McCain, a supporter of legislation that would have put some illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
“Gov. Romney, to his credit, . . . did something I don’t think is politically correct in the state of Massachusetts — stopped giving driver’s licenses and in-state tuition to illegal aliens,” Tancredo said, adding that Huckabee’s action in Arkansas was a “totally different kind of situation.”
The Huckabee campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Romney and Tancredo met earlier Thursday, and their conversation convinced Tancredo to make an endorsement.
In a brief written statement, Romney thanked the departing candidate for his support: “While we don’t agree on every issue, we agree on the need to keep America strong. I look forward to working with him and other Republicans to achieve that.”
I guess I understand. If evangelicals are dumb enough to support Huckabee, and one assumes Paul is unelectable, then patriots are forced into a difficult position of trying to counter the Huckster with the least of the remaining evils. Of course, I do think Paul is electable, but many disagree. We’ll know in a few short weeks.
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