Tom Tancredo: ‘Thank God John McCain Lost’
In Tancredo’s view, the Tea Party movement would never have been sparked under a McCain administration because Republican Party leaders and activists would have been muffled from criticizing their president. Meanwhile, McCain would be cutting deals with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
If the Arizona senator had won, Tancredo said, “Sarah Palin would not be free to tell it like it is.”
If McCain had won, “There would be no Republican in Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts.”
Tancredo, best known for his hard-line stance against illegal immigration, also said the theoretical McCain administration would have already held a bill signing ceremony outside the White House with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat who previously worked with McCain on an unsuccessful overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that would have provided a path to citizenship for some of the illegal immigrants residing in the U.S.
“We would not be here” if McCain had won, he said. “What happened to us in that last election was really a revolution.”
Tancredo also heaped criticism on Obama, calling him “a committed socialist ideologue” and warned against the “cult of multiculturalism” in America.
I agree with some of the Tea Partiers main arguments: that fiscal conservatism is the proper path, that government regulation has greatly exceeded its proper scope, and that states should be freer to govern without interference from the federal government.
But these principles are difficult to get behind when racist douchebags like Tom Tancredo and incoherent ninnies like Sarah Palin are leading the charge.
Further, my understanding is that the true tea-baggers fully embrace the social conservatism espoused by Republicans. My opinion is that any movement aimed at restricting the scope of government should at least be neutral on divisive issues like gay marriage and abortion. With so many independents out there, many of whom are essentially social liberals and fiscal conservatives, it's too bad no mainstream movement has credibly emerged to challenge the sad two-party hegemony.
