Salon: By running for Governor of Colorado, Tancredo "will probably hand election to Democrats"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Monday, Jul 26, 2010 16:45 ET
Tom Tancredo running for Colorado governor

By Alex Pareene

The anti-immigration zealot launches a third-party campaign, will probably hand election to Democrats

Nativist loon Tom Tancredo will run for governor of Colorado, because for some reason the two Republicans currently running for that job displease him.

Well, Scott McInnis has a plagiarism problem, and Dan Maes had some campaign finance problems. Tancredo's real problem is probably that he looked around one day, realized that any Republican with name recognition has a good shot at winning a race this year, and was dismayed to learn that it was too late for him to get on the Colorado Republican primary ballot.

Tancredo's original gambit was to call on both Maes and McInnis to promise to drop out the race after the primary, so that the party could name someone else for the November ballot. (That someone else would presumably be Tancredo.) But McInnis and Maes wouldn't go for that, surprisingly. So now Tancredo is a the Constitution Party's candidate for governor.

And then Tom Tancredo and the head of the Colorado GOP yelled at each other on the radio for a while.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/07/26/tancredo_governor_colorado

Will the Tea Partiers -- who are, after all, just independent, concerned citizens, and not simply angry White Republicans -- vote for Tom Tancredo on a third party line?

[Ozymanithrax]

1. I hope so.

Wouldn't it be cool of the Teaparty causes the Republicans to defy history and do badly in this midterm.

[elleng]

2. Excellent! The More the Better!

[saltpoint]

3. Let the Colorado GOP alleyfight begin, and let the

knives be very, very sharp.

[rpannier]

4. If nothing else

Tancredo will make all the other candidates and their supporters look sane and intelligent

[UTUSN]

5. K&R big #5 for: Tancredo and Steele -----------our MOLES!1

[backscatter712]

6. Watching the GOP in Colorado self-immolate will be comedy gold!

:popcorn:

[SlipperySlope]

7. Anybody got popcorn?

This will be fun to watch