Why Tancredo likes Mitt

From The American Spectator:

Rep. Tom Tancredo yesterday afternoon endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney after one of Tancredo's senior advisers, Bay Buchanan, pressed him to make the endorsement.

Buchanan is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As well, rumors were swirling in the media pool covering the press conference that Romney had made a personal commitment to assist Tancredo should he choose to run for office again in the near future.

Romney has flip-flopped on the immigration issue, the one issue that Tancredo drove during his long-shot presidential bid, and a number of advisers to Tancredo on the immigration issue had been pressing him over the past three days to endorse former Sen. Fred Thompson, whose illegal immigration policies are more in line with Tancredo's.

In fact several months ago, according to an influential anti-immigration-reform adviser to Tancredo, as well as other conservatives, Tancredo was prepared to endorse Thompson if he came out in support of Tancredo's specific anti-illegal-immigration policy proposals. But Thompson was not yet in the presidential race, and Tancredo instead decided to push forward with his own campaign.

"We're all scratching our heads a little on this one," says the immigration adviser. "It isn't the one we would have had him made, but Bay is extremely influential with him and clearly her advice carried more sway than our opinion did."

A member of Tancredo's campaign says that while Buchanan's opinion might have had greater influence than others, Tancredo's main criterion was electability. "Romney has made the better showing thus far, and Tom wants to have a influence in the Republican Party beyond Iowa," says the adviser. "Romney was just the smarter pick."

I have run across some people who are very bitter about Tancredo's endorsement of Mitt. They feel that he should have backed Thompson as the only true conservative in the race. They have taken this to mean that Tom is a complete hypocrite who never really believed his anti-illegal immigration rhetoric.

I disagree.

Tancredo has made a pragmatic decision to back the most conservative candidate he believes can win. He has obviously noticed the same things about Fred's unwillingness to sacrifice his self-perceived dignity by climbing down into the sewer with the other candidates and engaging in the no-holds-barred knife fight which the voters require of a candidate to prove that "he really wants it" that I have. Tancredo obviously feels that Romney has the best chance of winning as is on board to help him.

There is also the possibility that Tancredo has been offered the VP spot in a Romney administration. This would be a good thing because it would ensure that the border control position would be well represented in the Romney cabinet. This would gain Romney much needed votes from the border security wing of the GOP.

Tancredo drops out

From USA Today:

DES MOINES — Rep. Tom Tancredo dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday and endorsed rival Mitt Romney.

The Colorado Republican made his exit from the race official on his 62nd birthday at a press conference here. He'll throw his support behind GOP candidate Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, he said.

Tancredo was the guy I most agreed with, but he never stood a chance. I'm glad he got his point across and I wish him well.

I wish he had thrown his support behind Fred, but I'll take Mitt over McCain, Giuliani or Huckabee.

Someone did have to say it

Rudy restates his support for taxpayer funded abortions

Julie Annie has gone out of his way to restate his support for taxpayer funded abortions. His reasoning is that since it is a "constitutional right" that the government must provide it to those who cannot afford it on their own.

If he honestly believes this then he is simply too stupid to be the president of the United States. The Second Amendment recognized a right to "keep and bear arms". If one is too poor to afford a good quality firearm should the government, even on a "state by state basis" supply him with a gun?

I would love to start a conservative cable news network which would be as far to the right as CNN is to the left (well, not that far as all the on air personell would then have to wear SS uniforms). I don't have the capital to do this, so I want the government to pay for it for me. We also have the right to own real property so I want the government to buy me some lakefront property down in Mecklenburg County, you know the kind that goes for $300,000.00 per acre.

Julie would almost have to be too smart to really believe this. What he is hoping is that the public will be stupid enough to fall for it. He is hoping that social conservatives will be dumb enough to say, "well it is a constitutional right because of Roe v Wade so he will have no choice and it won't really be his fault".

This is the kind of reasoning that Mrs. Bill Clinton would use.

Julie Annie is not fit to be president. Let's get behind Fred Thompson or Duncan Hunter or Tom Tancredo and push. HARD.