Palin endorses Tancredo in CO

It also shows her true class. After what Tancredo said about her after she endorsed McCain over JD I doubt I would be man enough to support the man if he said the same crap about me. Palin puts the needs of the voters ahead of her personal views and personal paybacks. A lesser person would have told Tancrando to get bent.

unseen on November 2, 2010 at 9:04 AM

MAR 1, 2010

Tancredo, known for his strong stance against illegal immigration, spoke to WND after a Dutch newspaper published an interview article in which he said he didn’t view the GOP’s 2008 vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, as “presidential.”

Tancredo told WND that if Republicans “end up repeating the mistakes of the past” he would run again.

“I am convinced that we’ve got one more shot at this before the Republican Party comes apart at the seams, if they really don’t get it right,” he said.

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‘Pretty much a squish

In the interview with the Dutch paper, Tancredo said he didn’t believe Palin would make a good president.

“I really don’t have this feeling about her as being presidential,” Tancredo said. “I don’t know what it is exactly. I don’t know if the issues really are that difficult for her or not.”

Tancredo told WND he didn’t have his own political future in mind when he made the remarks about Palin.

“I was reflecting what I think of her at the moment,” he said. “I truly wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh, you know, here’s a chance to position myself.’”

“I’m not that strategic, to tell you the truth,” he said, laughing.

Tancredo told WND that if Palin were the party’s choice, he would need to have her clarify her stance on a number of issues, particularly immigration.

When she ran with McCain, he said, she was “pretty much a squish.”

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Tancredo said he understood that as a vice-presidential candidate, Palin could not freely express her own views, “but if that’s really how she feels, if she’s looking for a ‘pathway to citizenship,’ well, no, I’m not going to support her, absolutely not.”

“She’s a nice lady, and I like lots of the things she says, but then there are some very basic questions I would have to have answered,” he told WND. “And that’s one. What is her real, honest-to-God position on illegal immigration and immigration in general?”

Tancredo said the U.S. needs a moratorium on immigration, and “I’m almost sure she’s not going to support that.”

Tancredo told the Dutch paper he questioned whether Palin “has what it takes” to be president” and “whether she really wants it.”

“As governor of the state of Alaska, she doesn’t have all that kind of experience. She can get better. But I don’t know if she is really looking to do it,” he told NRC Handelsblad.

Asked whether maintaining speculation about whether she will run was a way to sell books, referring to her No. 1 bestselling “Going Rogue,” Tancredo replied, “Sure. Make a lot of money and stay in the mix. I think that’s a great idea.”

The Dutch paper asked Tancredo what he learned about Palin from her decision to campaign for McCain in his 2010 Senate campaign against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who largely shares Tancredo’s views on immigration.

“That tells me she is a Republican,” he said. “I am not. I mean, I am a member of that party and that will always stay that way. But to me it’s only a mechanism, a way to get on the ballot and all that. But she is a real Republican.”

The Dutch interviewer pointed out that in his Tea Party Nation speech, Tancredo noted Palin could finally express her views now that she was free from McCain.

“I said: ‘Now she can tell it like it is.’ And she chooses not to,” Tancredo clarified.

The Dutch paper then asked: “So at the end of the day you are not that fond of her?”

“You are right. I was much fonder of her before she chose to get involved in the McCain thing. She didn’t have to do it.”

YEAP Palin is a better person then I am If he said those things about me I think I would have told him to go to hell but Palin see the greater picture and can forget and forgive.

this endorsement kind of destroys the myth that Palin is a diva. A dive or a “mean girl” would never have put the needs and wishes of the CO voters ahead of her personal payback.

unseen on November 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM

turfmann on November 2, 2010 at 9:04 AM

Her coattails are long and powerful. this is another reason the establishment do not want her. Her running stands a chance of delivering the first real mandate to a POTUS since Reagan

unseen on November 2, 2010 at 9:17 AM

GO TOM!! GO!!

HDFOB on November 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM

While I’m not a Tom hater, iu lost a lot of respect for the man when he bashed Palin in Mar because of his friend JD Hayworth. I’m no McCain supporter either. I just thought it showed a lack of class on his part to decide to go that route.

unseen on November 2, 2010 at 9:19 AM

i’m calling the surprise of the day in the Senate the win of COd and in the house the defeat of Pelosi

unseen on November 2, 2010 at 9:21 AM

Bradky on November 2, 2010 at 9:59 AM

equating being against NAFTA as protectionism is silly. Tarrifs are a tool much like a gun is a tool. And as everyone knows guns don;’t kill people people kill people. Tarrifs do not cause protectionism, people cause protectionism.

Rasing tarrifs to make companies pay the costs of the market they wish to sell into is not protectionism. In fact it will make those companies demand less spnding, less taxes and less regulations. to allow these companies to avoid and not live under the laws they help to pass is wrong. If GE wants cap and trade then GE needs to live under the ramifications to its manufacturing costs. if Ge has to pay the costs of cap and trade on its bottomline it would not be so quick to embrace it. there ar emany just rules and regulations that compnaies support because of PC and it looks “good” but they avoid the ramifications of by moving their business out of the country and selling free of charge back into the market.

unseen on November 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM