If your so upset about immigration, then why don't people vote for Tom Trancredo?

Ok maybe you never herd of him, but it would be a good idea to brush up on ALL of the canadates running.

Yeah, it's difficult to get info on a lot of the candidates if you watch TV for it. They've made it a three way race, and it's still 18 months until the election. I prefer to get my information from the internet.

There are lots of good candidates on this issue. I think Tancredo, Hunter and Paul all have solid ideas on stemming the tide of illegal immigration.

Kind of hard to vote for him until there's actually an election....at least a primary....

A) Because most people AREN'T that upset about it.

There is a small, but very loud, very obnoxious, and very telegenic minority of racists and nativists that are upset. There always is in America. Do a Google on "No Irish Need Apply" or "The Chinese Exclusion Acts" or "The Know Nothing Party." These folks make a great deal of noise, but there aren't that many of them.

B) Because Tom Trancredo isn't just a bigoted moron, and he's not just a coward, he's a chickenhawk of the first degree.

Tancredo was in favor of the Vietnam War and spoke in support of the conflict as a Republican student activist. He became eligible to serve in Vietnam After graduating from the University of Northern Colorado in June 1969. Tancredo eventually received a "1-Y" mental health deferment after telling doctors during his physical that he had a history of mental illness and had been treated for depression.[3]

YES, after making a whole lot of noise about supporting the war, when it came time for him to show some spine and actually GO... he got a MENTAL HEALTH DEFERMENT.

Recently he suggested that the U.S. should consider bombing Mecca in response to an Islamic terrorist strike on U.S. soil; demanded that the government drop the design for a Pennsylvania memorial to Sept. 11 victims because its crescent shape is a symbol of Islam; voted against federal aid to Hurricane Katrina victims, calling Louisiana officials corrupt; and said that New Mexico was improperly using money obtained from declaring a state of emergency over immigration.

"What you are doing in Washington is divisive, partisan demagoguery on a critical issue for our country," New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said in a letter to Tancredo.

Tancredo's fiercest critics say he surrounds himself with white supremacists. Tancredo takes money from and moves in the same circles as people whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as "extremists."

Barbara Coe, co-author of a 1994 California ballot initiative denying illegal immigrants access to public schools and hospitals, donated $500 to Tancredo's 2004 campaign and has long been a key supporter. Proceeds from the "Tancredo for President" bumper sticker, which sell for $2 each, go to another Coe group, California Coalition for Immigrant Reform. Tancredo spoke at a 2003 event put on by that group.

Coe said she belonged to and spoke at an event of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that declares on its website that it opposes "all efforts to mix the races of mankind (and) to promote non-white races over the European-American people." It sells T-shirts that say: "White pride. Save our Culture."

Both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti- Defamation League call the Council of Conservative Citizens a white-supremacist group.

Another Tancredo supporter is immigration activist Joe McCutchen of Arkansas, who gave Tancredo a total of $500 between 2002 and 2004. McCutchen said that while he did not belong to the Council of Conservative Citizens, he did speak at one of its events on immigration several years ago.

Tancredo said he doesn't want anyone involved in his movement because of racial views.

"I can't control the people who come to the speeches or say I'm a good guy," Tancredo said. "I know who I am."

He has not returned donations from either Coe or McCutchen.

So maybe the reason people don't vote for Trancredo is that he is a coward, a liar, a racist, certified to be crazy, and a bleeding MORON!!!!