The GOP clown car has one certifiable occupant. Someone please put Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) away. Listen to this desperate attempt to jerk the terror leash of people in Iowa. It just hit my mailbox.:
And the TV ad is not to believed.
Television ad: “Tough on Terror”OMFG.
On screen: TeamTancredo.orgPaid for by Tancredo for a Secure America
Approved by Tom Tancredo
Con. Tancredo: Hi I'm Tom Tancredo and I approved this message because someone needs to say it.
Voiceover: There are consequences to open borders beyond the 20 million aliens who have come to take our jobs. Islamic terrorists now freely roam U.S. soil, Jihadists who froth with hate here to do as they have in London, Spain, Russia.
The price we pay for spineless politicians who refuse to defend our borders against those who come to kill.
{Explosion}
On Screen: Tancredo… before it's too late.
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Pretty much all the Iowans I’ve met so far would laugh this guy right out of the room.
El. Oh. El. He sounds totally deranged!
Wasn’t that FBI report later admitted to be a hoax? Or am I thinking of a few dozen other reports of Islamic terror plots? It’s so hard to keep track of the bs and fear mongering these days.
Tom, go home, like your wounds, and blame somebody with dark skin. Just get the hell off of the airwaves and intertubes.
What a pathetic, desperate loser.
Make that lick vice like. I’m a crappy typist.
Today’s scaremongers just can’t hold up to the good ‘ol days. Remember when voting for a Democrat was voting for nuclear annihilation?
I think that a candidate — perhaps Obama since it would work best from him — could go a long way on with a campaign slogan along the lines of “Aren’t you tired of being afraid? All my opponents have to offer you is fear and more fear. I can make us safe.” And then follow it up with real ideas based on actual evidence, and not the damn security theater they have us go through at airports and the ridiculous color coded threat index.
Didn’t one of your Prezzes say something once about fearing fear itself?
Maybe he didn’t get the memo…
this tancredo fella really speaks to me, the basement dwelling shut-in that i am.
“Didn’t one of your Prezzes say something once about fearing fear itself? Maybe he didn’t get the memo…”
The current crop of American politicians are gnats standing on the shoulders of giants (like FDR)…
Wondering, do people in low-immigrant (and low illegal immigrant) states such as Iowa and NH have a disproportionate fear of immigrants and their effects on culture and the economy? I’m wondering if there’s some link between living overwhelmingly around native white people and fear of the brown menace. My stepfather is in NH. Coralling illegal immigrants is his number one issue (with lower taxes not far behind). But there’s virtually no non-white population in NH, and though Manchester is an immigrant base, the small immigrant population is mostly in the bottom half of the state.
I think the phenomen you’re refering to, deep6, is called “fear of the unknown”.
I’ve definitely seen it in operation in cities with a higher ethnic homogeniety.
It seems like, if you actually know/work with/ live near/go to school with etc etc people who are a different colour or whatever the Otherness marker is, you might not see them as a big lump of Scary, but maybe see them as like, you know, people.
Crazy I know!
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. . . I thought the way you keep terrorists from winning was to go on with business as usual, not to be cowed by fear but to live inspite of and despite the risks . . . but I guess that was before the “Never Met a Fear they Wouldn’t Exploit Republicans” got into power. . . damn me and my pre 9-11 thinking.
But Mr. Tan
cretinTancredo if those fuckers happen to be American born? Where are you going to deport them? Nice of you to connect mosques (Muslims) with May Day (communists) . . . oh goody! red and green bating just in time for Christmas!Oh but of course you throw in security at our borders, does that include Canada, or just the brown skins of Mexico . . . and you’d have my vote but you failed to mention beffing up security at our ports (silly me, I know you’re just playing to land locked states)
Oh and Tom, one last thing, I will do everything, and I do mean everything to change my Dad’s mind in voting for you.
cretin 2: a stupid, vulgar, or insensitive person
wow. for the past few months I’ve been freaking out about how I don’t have health insurance and don’t have the money to pay for ANYTHING out-of-pocket. silly me, I should have been worrying about the terrorists!
The current crop of American politicians are gnats standing on the shoulders of giants (like FDR)…
So gnats standing on the shoulders of giants sitting in wheelchairs?
sorry, the mental image was too strong to resist.
Tancredo isn’t thinking big enough, though. He needs to find a Kiefer Sutherland lookalike and do a mashup to combine actual 24 footage with the lookalike calling Tancredo into the room, and then he can help torture the brown guy by beating him with a phonebook or something.
Then he could have Spiderman and George Washington show up and praise him for doing a good job. I mean, as long as it’s just tough talk adolescent power fantasy that he’d incapible of backing up, why not go all the way?
The funny thing about this is that this ad wouldn’t be all that out of place coming from Giuliani either. Well, at least tancredo has said he’s not running for re-election from his district either, so when he’s gone, he’s gone–to Fox News, that is.
Don’t send him back to us in Colorado, we’ve known he was crazy for years and we don’t want him back. I think the only reason he ever got elected in the first place was so that he would take his crazy to Washington and away from us.
FDR was a giant is more ways than one. I’m sure the 120,000 Japanese that FDR decided to put into “camps” during WWII would agree with you too.
“If it takes the ritual sacrifice of a million puppies and kittens, if it takes the imprisonment and torture of 95% of America’s population just to be absolutely sure, if it means nuking all of the cities and towns in our country beginning with a letter in the first half of the alphabet, I would do it without hesitation because NO sacrifice is too great to ensure that terrorists never harm a single hair on an American head ever again! I would even declare war on Mexico to ensure no terrorists got into America by crossing that border! You think I won’t??! Go ahead, motherfucker, dare me! (Please dare me, I want to do it so much….)”
Disclaimer: the preceding statement was not really uttered by Tom Tancredo, nor does the poster of this comment wish to lead anybody to believe that he really did say it. This disclaimer included for the benefit of any Tancredo supporters who may happen upon the post and take it upon themselves to accuse the poster of libel. The poster realizes that such people are likely, if not certain, to be this stupid. This would be funny if it weren’t simultaneously sad and scary.
OMFG indeed. Such fearmongering is so 2004…
Are you aware of Rudy Giuliani’s dangerously stupid foreign policy vision?
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/08/rudy_giulianis_dangerously_stupid_foreign_policy_vision/
Make sure that your eyeballs are secured firmly in their sockets before reading. Actually, maybe it would be best to take a laptop to a hospital waiting room and then read it there, so there are trained professionals on hand to put your eyeballs back in place if they do indeed pop out of your head at the speed of sound.
You guys got this all wrong.
The guy with the backpack was Canadian. And he exploded socialized healthcare all over the place.
Oh dear sweet Shigeru, I just about crapped myself reading that. I can’t bring myself to actually listen to that crap.
Good heavens, get that guy a hug-yourself jacket, now.
I don’t understand the problem. If they’re roaming around frothing, shouldn’t they be pretty easy to spot? Or is jihadi froth difficult to distinguish from latte foam?
Sirkowski–
Now that’s the kind of Jihadi I can support!
I think what Tancredo needs is a catchier slogan:
Tom Tancredo. Because if you’re going to stop a lunatic, you’ve got to think like a lunatic.
Nope, nope, nope- Ole Tom has his finger on the pulse here. Good solid American, that Tom Tancredo. Need more like him, telling us what we need to know.
Why, just a few weeks ago, I saw a bunch of about 50 of them Jihadist types, gathering in a farmer’s field not too far from here. They had come down from Canada with NO PAPERS, ID, OR NOTHIN’, just out in the open. Hangin’ out and just WAITING. QUIETLY. PEACEFULLY. Gives me the creeps, watching them. Sometimes in small groups, sometimes leaving for the day mysteriously, but always BACK in that same field by the next morning. Hmmmmm…
This must have occurred for 2 weeks, before they disappeared altogether- last report is that they are heading down towards Maryland and Virginia, which any good American knows means THEY HAVE IMMINENT PLANS TO ATTACK SITES IN WASHINGTON DC.
We’ve seen “this type” before around these parts, but they always seem to disappear before the authorities can take them into custody for questioning. But they are especially clever sorts, calling this pattern every fall “migration” and calling themselves “Canadian Geese”… financed by their “Loony” currency… saying anyone crazy is a “birdbrain” is all a cover… AVIAN FLU IS THEIR FIRST LINE OF ATTACK! SHOOT ALL BIRDS! NOW!!!!!
Dick Cheney would.
“SHOOT ALL BIRDS! NOW!!!!!
Dick Cheney would. ”
…except we know how good Cheney is at hitting the birds he shoots at.
I’m surprised nobody caught the hidden message here.
From Wikipedia…
Great. Socialism==Terrorism.
“FDR was a giant is more ways than one. I’m sure the 120,000 Japanese that FDR decided to put into “camps” during WWII would agree with you too.”
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. But they also started this country, created a great Constitution, won our freedom from the British, etc.
Abraham Lincoln thought all blacks should leave the US and return to Africa - this was why the country of Liberia was founded. He also kept this country together during the worst period of American history (at least until now).
Teddy Roosevelt stole the isthmus of Panama from local people to build the Panama Canal. He was also a progressive Republican (wow!) who believed that huge corporations had to be reined in via anti-trust laws or else the US would be controlled by economic despots (boy how correct he was…).
Franklin Roosevelt did indeed sign off on one of the most shameful actions in the history of the US. To his everlasting discredit.
OTOH, he started Social Security, ended The Depression, won WWII, etc.
People (even politicians) are complex - neither all good, nor all bad.
Our current president is supposed to be a great guy to have a beer with - but does that offset all the harm his administration has done to this country, Iraq, and the world over the last 7-years? I think not…
“fear of the unknown”.
I’ve definitely seen it in operation in cities with a higher ethnic homogeniety.”
The most well regarded cure is to make the unknown known by the use of housekeepers, lawn maintanence and home construction/maintanence. Pool cleaners too. As well as improving the quality of ethnic restaurants.
See this takes a lot of money or prosperity which a lot of anti-immigrant people don’t have in their communities.
You have to understand the people who harp on it to get votes, support, sympathy aren’t those who really are afraid of the immigrants. They use the immigrants for both redneck votes and indentured servants.
There have been several recent news stories that towns that voted for heavy anti-immigration measures both legal and illegal are now finding their businesses dying as well as the town. Since the workers and customers were largely immigrants.
Talk about people learning about irony. They know want the immigrants back both legal and illegal.
Seriously without the immigrants most of America’s farming would die off since the crop pickers wouldn’t be around. Same for the chicken processing plants, groundskeeping.
“Our current president is supposed to be a great guy to have a beer with”
From whom? I thought it was Clinton that was supposed to be the guy to knock a beer back with.
The onion had a great take on having beer with Bush. I suspect the reality of having a brewski with Bush would be closer to the onion story.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42590
Tom Tancredo: he scares Americans so the terrorists don’t have to.
Yes, absolutely! (Why do I think what Super Tom has in mind here is getting into a submarine, shrinking to micron size and venturing into women’s ovaries to root out suspicious ova?)
Someone had to approve it or because five years of wall to wall terrormongering at max-vol still hasn’t quenched his thirst for it?
Mike
People (even politicians) are complex - neither all good, nor all bad. ?
I’m gonna save this. I know it’ll come in handy (often).
Prolly on Dec 3rd when Imus comes back and you-all want to make him out to be the worst thing that ever happened again.
Indeed, no problem at all, Maud, since he’d see no reason to distinguish between the two forms of froth–a latte-drinker is a jihadist is a socialist, whatever.
Destroy all foamers!
Especially spermacidal foam.
Foamophobia–it’s the American Way!
“I’m gonna save this. I know it’ll come in handy (often).
Prolly on Dec 3rd when Imus comes back and you-all want to make him out to be the worst thing that ever happened again.”
Imus is a rotten old racist, misogynist, bigoted asshole, and just plain not funny. He deserves another radio show about as much as my cat. But he’s certainly not the “worst thing that ever happened”, just one of a great many.
Actually, the worst thing in radio right now is Rush Limbaugh and all the faux-Reichwingnut Rush wanna-bes. But for every blame-point corporate-controlled radio deserves for that, Rush’s brown-shirted listeners deserve one as well. You can put an idiot on the radio, but you can’t make (some of) the public listen - they do that all by themselves…
(Note: No matter how odious Rush’s political opinions are, they would never be sufficient excuse to remove him from the air (unless he was openly calling for political assassinations or some such). However, his bigoted attacks on non-whites and women put him in a similar position to Imus, and if management decided to can him over that I wouldn’t shed a tear…)
MikeEss,
Mm, i dunno, politicians aren’t *that* complex. All those kinds of racism from past presidents? Not complex, pretty par for the course. Now that newfangled highly-nuanced-welfare-reform-no-child-left-behind-let-the-private-sector-help-your-ass
neoliberal racism, *that’s* complex.
Tancredo? Not complex. His name means BELIEVESAME.
“Don’t send him back to us in Colorado, we’ve known he was crazy for years and we don’t want him back. I think the only reason he ever got elected in the first place was so that he would take his crazy to Washington and away from us.”
Does anyone in Colorado even admit to voting for this walking, talking joke anymore?
Pfft, who cares if gas reaches $10/gallon and your kids are dying? TERRORISTS COULD ATTACK OUR SHOPPING MALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!!!!!
“Mm, i dunno, politicians aren’t *that* complex. All those kinds of racism from past presidents? Not complex, pretty par for the course.”
You understand I’m not defending Tancredo, right?
I was saying that people like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Roosevelts were complex people who did bads things along with the important good things they also did. And yes, they were products of their time and culture, so a lot of the racial/misogynist stuff they believed at the time sounds incredibly vile today, but was extremely common back then.
OTOH, Bush II hasn’t done any good thing big enough to offset all the bad things that have been done by his mis-administration. And people like Tancredo helped make all that evil stupidity possible. And now think they should be given the keys to the country to wreak even more havoc…
Oh?
So all of a sudden I’m nobody? sniff, sniff
waaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Could we spread a rumor that terrorists are targeting polling places, so that everyone who’s stupid enough to fall for the fear-mongering will to too a-scared to go vote, and calmer heads might prevail?
Tancredo is an idiot, always has been, always will be. I’ve been to several countries in the Middle East and I’ll simply state that we as Americans have no idea what it’s like to have our daily routine interrupted by bombs and the like. So, before we make fun of the fact that blowing up shopping malls is such a fantastical possibility in this country, first consider those that do have to deal with those kinds of things on a daily basis, as it is a reality, just luckily not here.
Not all OTHER issues. All issues. Awesome.
Wow. I’ve been ashamed of fellow Coloradoans before, but this takes the fucking cake.
It’s interesting that Tancredo is proud to be from Denver, but was actually elected in the suburbs of Denver and some connected rural area. Denver proper is not completely backassward and instead chose to be represented by Diana DeGette.
I just found out that a friend of mine who lives in Denver, husband died this weekend. Due to complications with diabetes, her teenage daughter has cancer and is starting another round of chemo. He was on disability, she just lost her job because he required so much care and they are the working poor to boot. She’s not even sure how she’s going to pay for the cremation.
Call me out of touch, but I think terrorists and bombing shopping malls is the furthest thing from her mind right now.
She’d do an ad for SCHIP in a second (and a few other things) but I really think she has enough burdens right now without having some republican attack her . . . I wonder if Tom will chip into the collection my class is taking to help her pay for the funeral, after all she should be paying attention to something more important like a possible threat to a shopping mall.
I just found out that a friend of mine who lives in Denver, husband died this weekend. Due to complications with diabetes, her teenage daughter has cancer and is starting another round of chemo.
He was on disability, she just lost her job because he required so much care and they are the working poor to boot. She’s not even sure how she’s going to pay for the cremation.
Call me out of touch, but I think terrorists and bombing shopping malls is the furthest thing from her mind right now.
I wonder if Tom will chip into the collection my high chool class is taking to help her pay for the funeral, after all she should be paying attention to something more important like a possible threat to a shopping mall. Right Tom?!
Melody - The 6th district has always been Republican. Just not bat shit crazy Republican
Yes. Let’s by all means compare Imus to U.S. presidents, especially those who lived before racism and sexism were seen as MORALLY WRONG.
I’m dating myself, but the “Tancredo. Before it’s too late” tagline reminds me so much of Bernard Epton, the last white man who stood between Harold Washington and the mayor’s office in Chicago.
Epton was a shlub nobody Republican former state legislator, one expected to fill out the space next to the (R) on the ballot. But when Washington got the Democratic nomination for mayor, Ed Vrdolyak and the other hardcore white Democratic racists (or those willing to ride the support of the hardcore racists) rallied around Epton as the last white hope.
By all accounts, Epton was a decent guy, but he was seduced by the prospect of being mayor, even by a fluke. He allowed himself to be used by the racist wing, to the extent of using the tagline, “Epton for mayor…before it’s too late.”
He barely lost. People who appeal to racial fears tend to win more often than they lose in this country.
Antimatter Spork, yeah. The tv commercial reminded me of the LBJ Daisy A-bomb commercial as well
Bitter Scribe, “This American Life” just re-aired the special they did on the first black mayor of Chicago! I wondered why that sounded SO familiar to me!
also, how long before we start to label the special anti-choicers who write down license plate numbers and post addresses of workers and patrons on websites advocating violence as terrorists as well?
Stephanie Miller, daughter of Bill Miller, who was Barry Goldwater’s running mate (1964) just said the samething on her radio show.
She and the mooks also bought up many points that have been brought up here . . . I wonder if she (they) are reading Pandagon!? !