Elect me...or you will die!

ps., I'm not a terrorist.

Tancredo needs to have a word with Dubya. In the minutes and days following 9/11/01, Dubya vowed to protect our borders and ports.
We all know how that worked out.

Help, the paranoids are after me.

For some reason, this just makes me think of the classic movie, Canadian Bacon.

BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!!!!!!!!

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Back packs are the problem.

Death to all who wear back packs!!

vague message of
foreigners taking jobs = terrorists

Go Tancredo!
Alienate people from outside this country!
Republicans are constructing their own demise.
Just look at any census.

Will there even be a Republican party in 50 years?

gop = fear

Hatred of brown people... hahah

I love brown people

i love it!

desperate people are known to render desperate deeds..............

-s

Oh for Christ's sake.

Tancredo, I reserve this comment for only a select few, and you're one of them:

Go straight to hell.

This whole culture of fear is getting so old, it's moldy. I'm sure the kinds of sons-of-bitches that brought us this ad will next look at how convenient another anthrax "attack" would be. Yeah, and while they're at it, wouldn't it be nice to ratchet up the airport security bull-crap to continue instilling fear and terror? Perhaps those ball-point pens could indeed be tiny atomic bombs?

Damn these people.

Then: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself".
Now: "We have nothing to OFFER but fear itself."

Any questions:

That had to be an SNL skit.

Vote Tancredo Because We Just Don't Hate Enough.

If these people were fanatical and even slightly capable, they would make runs on US airports every once in a while in front of departing or landing passenger planes, blowing themselves up in US malls, buying rocket propelled grenades on US black market and shooting at the busses, planes or sky scrapers (if there are hundreds of thousands of guns on that market, there are at least thousands of RPGs which they for some reason don’t buy, and the reason they don’t buy is because the nature of men is not to kill mindlessly) They are the fighters, trained and armed like soldiers, who prefer to fight on a battle ground of Iraq and Afghanistan, and they do it only because we create the battle grounds. In other words, the war on terror is about to end very soon because too much money has been wasted and the killing nature of man is nowhere to be found on our soil. Freedom and prosperity seen on the streets of US is the last thing a terrorist wants to become a part of and taste before a strike, for him the Iraqi desert, Afghani mountains and woods are the way to go, and EVERY American can’t help but admit that those would be pretty much the logical and right places for a fanatic to be in, and end their lives in the name of responding to F-16 strike or Blackwater killing. There are 5 thousands flights over our nation at any given time during the day, 2615 days have passed since 911. That would give the terrorists 13 million 75 thousand chances to realize the Republican dream and strike us where it hearts most, yet they don't do that for the most basic of reasons. I guess it's time for the mind altering, flashing, psychotic TV ads to do their work for them.

The only act of accountability that is going to register with these people is voting their asses out of office.

I'm convinced they no longer serve America or it's Constitution.

Symes @ 10:

Look, whats so surprising? The Dems are just as much chicken little cowards as the Repugs.
They both cower in fear over a non existent threats while the real threat gets funded by their very actions.

While this is true, only one of the parties that you mentioned uses as a PR campaign. When you think of fear-based advertising, pretty much only one party comes to mind.

Christian54 @ 32:

I don't think you realize how many of us Life Long Democrats are with Tancredo on this issue. All the democrats in my neighborhood are with him on this one issue. And my father came here on a banana boat!

I would be hesitant to claim such a thing after that goofy commercial. Out of curiosity, how many such people are there?

Sorry, that was not "psychotic!". It's kinda par for course these days. Remember the wolves commercial in 04' by the R's? That was very good ad for what its intention was.

Then again, this ad will offend about as many as it will impress. That can been seen as a positive.

Both the ad and the fear-mongering Tancredo epitomize the GOP. The smart boys of the republican party have distilled their marketing strategy radically during the past 27 years. It hasn't been morning in Amerika since November, 1994, and there's no turning back. Today it's flash-and-fang, slash-and-burn, 'round the clock. Come to think of it, there's a fair amount of honesty in marketing where that image is concerned. All because that's the kind of people they are, and always have been, and always will be. Ads of this sort will serve to introduce a lot of other people to some pretty ugly ideas, espoused by a pretty ugly party. That's the upside.

DavidtheDuke @ 37:

Sorry, that was not "psychotic!". It's kinda par for course these days. Remember the wolves commercial in 04' by the R's? That was very good ad for what its intention was.

I often thought that the ad should have ended with the wolves attacking and tearing apart the flag, the constitution and a country inhabited by brown people.

Anyone who believes a political ad deserves to be ruled by whatever rich turd wins or fixes the election.For the last seven years it has been Bush.Next time ...who knows?One thing remains constant.These assholes do not represent the people,.
nor does the press, the senate, the congress,the governors of the states,nor the houses and senates of those states.I`m cynical,yes,but it looks as though I might as well give up the ghost and accept my suffering because it`s not likely to stop very soon.
Good night and good luck.

I don't support his stance but I do understand. Shuler faces the same problem as my Rep Nancy Boyda. I went canvassing in a neighboring county the Sat before last following a '50 state strategy: one year out event' (I volunteer and/or work field in every election) and knocked 50-60 doors or so. Out of the 20 or so that were home every single one listed immigration as their most pressing voting issue. Every one of them.

Lou Dobb's Disease runs rampant in many parts of the country. Either they get on the bigot train or they will not get re-elected. It's really that simple.

That was actually just a very bad ad. It didn't resonate at all..........

I voted for Heath Shuler. I live in Henderson County, NC, and before him there was Chas Taylor. When Shuler got in, we thought in our naivete that good times were coming. We'd never heard of Bushdogs. When he joined Bush in the first big war vote, we wrote him to say that he was supposed to serve us and that he got voted in to end the war and stand up to our dictator. We told him that we'd never vote for him again. (We got no reply, of course.) But what do you do come the next election and he's the Democratic candidate. You got it. We stay home. This whole voting system is sick and sickening. I've written places asking what to do about it, and gotten no reply, (just I got no reply from Gore's outfit concerning the mercury now seeping into landfills as thousands of spent fluorescent bulbs release their toxins into the earth. Not connected? Sure they are. We live in a system too big and too impersonal to work.) Q: how do you vote asses out of office when they're the only bums lined up for the seat?

I don't support Shuler's position but I understand what he's facing. It's the same as my Rep Nancy Boyda.

I went canvassing Sat before last following a '50 state strategy; one year out party' (I volunteer and/or work for a campaign every election) and knocked about 50-60 targeted voter's doors. Out of the 20 or so that were home every single one of them listed immigration as the most important voting issue. Every single one (except for the one whose boyfriend screamed at me that he's a Republican and hates Hillary and all the Democrats and chased me out of his yard, but I'm sure had I the chance to ask him his answer would have been immigration too. That or gun rights. lol).

Here in the red states Lou Dobb's Disease runs rampant. Either they get on the bigot train or they will not get re-elected.

Unfortunately it's really just that simple.

Do you people read the economic news? All the progressive sites (including this one) are saying we're in for a recession (at least). Who's going to get hurt (even more)? The working guy will be the first laid off and the corporations will replace him with ever cheaper labor.

What part of "illegal" alien don't you understand? When will we begin to take care of our own problems? The US is going broke, folks. The 12-20 million illegals here represent 10-15% of Mexico's population.
I know they want to better themselves...etc. So do the US citizen working stiffs.

Should we have 10% of all the poor countries in the world come on down so they can better themselves? Where do we cut it off?

Hate for brown people? Let's see: Have I ever been fucked over by black, brown, yellow, or red people? No, not once. Although one of my black friends brothers ran his mouth non-stop, which was annoying. Have white people, including friends ever fucked me over, ripped me off and fooled around with my women? Yep, on more than one occasion. Conclusion: I really can't afford to have white friends. I'm moving to a new neighborhood.

I now know everything I'll ever need to know about Tancredo.

Thank god the man doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being elected.
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Snowball @ 58:

I'm more worried about losing my job to outsourcing than I am to an illegal immigrant.

Very true, I have heard of far more people losing their job to an overseas worker than an illegal worker.

The key to stopping illegal immigration is to stop flooding Latin America with cheap agricultural products, not law enforcement. Law enforcement is only a leaky bandaid on a problem that is much deeper and created by corporate written trade agreements.

Tom Tancredo; spreading fear and hate one political ad at a time!!

(hey, what kind of name is "Tancredo" anyways??)

jr @ 12:

I'm sick of the media giving eugenics advocates like tancredo "security dad" cover

Thanks for the hatred and fear John...

Near 50% of Illegal aliens came here legally but refused to leave when their visas expired and most of them are from India. They remain here because the corporate interests that imported them are not responsible for their return home. They don't mind paying thousands of dollars to get them into the US and pay them barely a living wage while they make billions of dollars for the companies.

The 12 million Mexican citizens who jumped the border are no less illegal.

That political add is a little over the top and doesn't, as most don't, show the complete picture.

Ok, apology accepted.

Lord, Lord, this is all it takes to persuade people to live in fear?

So many demons, so little time.

I say we start importing cheap CEOs from Latin America.

"hi, i'm tom tancredo and i approve this message, because someones needs to be a racist lunatic."

ashton @ 54:

BronxTom @ 53:

What part of "illegal" alien don't you understand? When will we begin to take care of our own problems? The US is going broke, folks. The 12-20 million illegals here represent 10-15% of Mexico's population.
I know they want to better themselves...etc. So do the US citizen working stiffs.

Should we have 10% of all the poor countries in the world come on down so they can better themselves? Where do we cut it off?

Um, did you even watch the ad? The issue is not will illegals, it is with linking them to terrorism.

Not one response to the real issue here - employment and hypocrisy. We "progressives" decry Bush's lawbreaking, but illegal immigration is OK? Our civil rights and liberties are disappearing along with the entire middle class, but we've got to make room? We're supposed to be the smart ones, aren't we? We know that the official unemployment statistics are bogus. True unemployment in the US is probably at 7-8%, if those whose checks have stopped were counted, and it is going to rise dramatically in the next year. This issue could cost us the White House. The economy this time next year is going to be everything. Remember - regardless of issues, people vote their pocketbooks.
I live in Tancredo's district and I think he's mostly nuts and I think the terrorism thing is wrong, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
This is "insourcing" and our corporate masters love every minute of it. Who are we truly helping here? I think the fear of being labeled racist drives much of this. But isn't it racist to allow lawbreaking for Latinos but not for Africans, or Chinese, or Indians, or whatever?
Previous large waves of immigrants fueled the factories and other labor intensive industries here - but we don't have factories anymore.
You want to see racism? Wait until the jobs start disappearing. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Tancredo is a cheap second rate demagogue asshat. The fact his support is almost nonexistent shows he's not fooling anyone with his bullshit rhetoric against undocumented immigrants.

A.Citizen @ 22:

Well I posted about Ol' Heath some time ago here:

'Heath Shuler, Bush Dog Democrat'

And if you dig into the comments you will find several people taking me to task for 'attacking a Democrat' their rational was '....he's way better than the ReThug he replaced...'

To which I can now safely reply, 'Really? What planet do you live on pal?'

Shuler is turning out to be just as good a politician, getting in bed with the Tancredo Wing of the ReThugs is beyond stupid, as he was an NFL quarterback.

You can check his NFL stats at my post.....

Heh.....

shuler was a repug once if I remember correctly. he anf dour Dem winners in 2008 turned out to be relabeled repugs. Like you, it was no surprise to some of us.

BronxTom @ 77:

ashton @ 54:

BronxTom @ 53:

What part of "illegal" alien don't you understand? When will we begin to take care of our own problems? The US is going broke, folks. The 12-20 million illegals here represent 10-15% of Mexico's population.
I know they want to better themselves...etc. So do the US citizen working stiffs.

Should we have 10% of all the poor countries in the world come on down so they can better themselves? Where do we cut it off?

Um, did you even watch the ad? The issue is not will illegals, it is with linking them to terrorism.

Not one response to the real issue here - employment and hypocrisy. We "progressives" decry Bush's lawbreaking, but illegal immigration is OK? Our civil rights and liberties are disappearing along with the entire middle class, but we've got to make room? We're supposed to be the smart ones, aren't we? We know that the official unemployment statistics are bogus. True unemployment in the US is probably at 7-8%, if those whose checks have stopped were counted, and it is going to rise dramatically in the next year. This issue could cost us the White House. The economy this time next year is going to be everything. Remember - regardless of issues, people vote their pocketbooks.
I live in Tancredo's district and I think he's mostly nuts and I think the terrorism thing is wrong, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
This is "insourcing" and our corporate masters love every minute of it. Who are we truly helping here? I think the fear of being labeled racist drives much of this. But isn't it racist to allow lawbreaking for Latinos but not for Africans, or Chinese, or Indians, or whatever?
Previous large waves of immigrants fueled the factories and other labor intensive industries here - but we don't have factories anymore.
You want to see racism? Wait until the jobs start disappearing. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

It's absolutely true that illegals of various races are rounded up and deported regularly, but local police have instructions not to arrest hispanics. I know this because there are law enforcement officers in our family. they say they get hundreds of illegals to house in their jail on their way to deportation, but never hispanics.

CoIntelPro @ 81:

A.Citizen @ 22:

shuler was a repug once if I remember correctly. he and four Dem winners in 2008 turned out to be relabeled repugs. Like you, it was no surprise to some of us.

[corrected]

Sadly enough, not a single one of the 20 million immigrants took Tancredo's job.

Christian54 @ 32:

I don't think you realize how many of us Life Long Democrats are with Tancredo on this issue. All the democrats in my neighborhood are with him on this one issue. And my father came here on a banana boat!

One more time, I would like to hear the plausible argument as to why it's a good thing to let millions of people sneak into our country illegally. Why is that a good thing? And why do some liberals get so overheated when anyone suggests enforcing the law of the land? You're always grousing that Bush is breaking the law, so why do you think "brown people" should get a pass?

I read an interesting article yesterday that might explain the Dems reticence to address the border issue. There are 23 hispanic Democrats in the House. Last week they got angry because the Dems supported a bill that would make it easier to identify employers who are hiring illegals. The hispanic reps threatened the Democratic leaders of the House that if they don't pass legislation favorable to illegal hispanics, these 23 reps will de-rail all the Democratic legislation from now on. Sounds like the kind of people you want in your country, right?

CoIntelPro @ 84:

kaT @ 80:

I don't see how these two statements show psychotic racism toward brown people. He's saying we should secure the borders because we don't know who's in the country. Is that not true?

We don't know the criminal records or the medical condition of any of the millions of people who have come into the U. S. illegally. I don't know why people don't find that alarming.

don't you ever stop?

No. I'm right and you're wrong.

kaT @ 91:

CoIntelPro @ 84:

kaT @ 80:

I don't see how these two statements show psychotic racism toward brown people. He's saying we should secure the borders because we don't know who's in the country. Is that not true?

We don't know the criminal records or the medical condition of any of the millions of people who have come into the U. S. illegally. I don't know why people don't find that alarming.

don't you ever stop?

No. I'm right and you're wrong.

And instead of just telling me to shutup, why don't you give me a rational argument for supporting an influx of 20-30 million hispanics? And not just that keeping them out would be "racism."

What the fuck is wrong with all you diversity loving people? The brown insurgency must stop, or our country is finished. Well, it's finished already anyway, so why don't we just return the lands we stole from Mexico, and ask for permission to live here? Or move farther north.

Are you all for a North American Union? What about world government? The intention of all politicians who get anywhere in politics, Rep or Dem, is to drag us into that, like it or not. That is the reason our borders have not been secured. Fill this country with millions of people who do not respect our Constitution and will do nothing to defend it, and that makes the jobs of the elite power brokers in politics and corporate America that much easier.

Why are some of you unpatriotic, treasonous SOB's so willing to give up our sovereignty to people who believe they are repopulating their own land? You should be fighting for our country, not whining about how we should let anyone in who wants to come here.

Enough already!!! We can't take anymore! Our economy is collapsing, and there is nothing to stop it now. All of you who were born here will be competing with illegals for food, housing, jobs and medical care. When you find that one or all of those things are in short supply, or not to be had at any price, just look in the mirror. You, and all like you who attack people like Tom Tancredo can sacrifice whatever you wish to help the illegals, but don't come whining to me. You won't get a dime or a scrap of food from me, you stupid bastards.

This commercial resembles Vernon Robinson's ad for Congress. It might be done by the same team.

The brown insurgency must stop, or our country is finished.

Yeah, heard this one before. If you're not with us you're with the vermin.

Yes....Muslim Jihadists roaming our streets. Sheesh. You see, all those young Muslim Americans want to do is blow stuff up. It's in their blood. They don't want to grow up like the kid next door, playing video games on their XBOX or winning the soccer tournament or what have you. No Sireeee. They just want to blow shit up.

The U.S. hasn't seen this level of unhingedness since the Japanese internment camps in WWII. What's next? Force all Muslims to wear a patch on their shirt so that we can tell them the Hispanics and Italians apart? "You see son, this is OK brown, he mows our lawn. That's bad brown, he's a Muslim."

I remember when Shuler was taken with the 5th pick in the draft by my beloved Redskins. I had such high hopes. He was "the next great one." Then it turned out he sucked. I mean really sucked. He certainly never became the "next great one" all the experts said he would be. Not even close. A few years later he was out of the league, presumably bagging groceries.

Fast forward ten years and damn if the same thing didn't happen again. Fucker.

so over the top its comical

Rocky @ 95:

What the fuck is wrong with all you diversity loving people? The brown insurgency must stop, or our country is finished. Well, it's finished already anyway, so why don't we just return the lands we stole from Mexico, and ask for permission to live here? Or move farther north.

Are you all for a North American Union? What about world government? The intention of all politicians who get anywhere in politics, Rep or Dem, is to drag us into that, like it or not. That is the reason our borders have not been secured. Fill this country with millions of people who do not respect our Constitution and will do nothing to defend it, and that makes the jobs of the elite power brokers in politics and corporate America that much easier.

Why are some of you unpatriotic, treasonous SOB's so willing to give up our sovereignty to people who believe they are repopulating their own land? You should be fighting for our country, not whining about how we should let anyone in who wants to come here.

Enough already!!! We can't take anymore! Our economy is collapsing, and there is nothing to stop it now. All of you who were born here will be competing with illegals for food, housing, jobs and medical care. When you find that one or all of those things are in short supply, or not to be had at any price, just look in the mirror. You, and all like you who attack people like Tom Tancredo can sacrifice whatever you wish to help the illegals, but don't come whining to me. You won't get a dime or a scrap of food from me, you stupid bastards.

The greatest threat to America has always been weak fearful people like this Rocky guy. The current problems with the US economy can very easily be traced to the richest 5%. Forget that income divide in this country is the greatest it's ever been and much greater then any advanced nation, Rocky and Trancredo want you to believe that it is poor working people (ie:the backboone of the nation) that are wrecking the country. Well I say "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me," and keep the greedy rich thieves away and I will make a strong healthy liberty loving nation. Why does Rocky hate America?

Who cares about Tancredo? He's fringe. Have you seen Giuliani's anti-immigrant ad? And he may actually be our next president. http://youtube.com/watch?v=c2Sc_E1llpY

No, only the ones with hoddies and backpacks, remember?

Tim L @ 110:

So let me get this straight, are you all saying that terrorists coming across our wide-open southern border are no threat, and we shouldn't worry about it?
Oh, sorry, I forgot, it's really about racism and hating "brown people". Because you say so.
Tancredo may be a scumbag. Heck, most Repubs might be scumbags. But that doesn't automatically mean they're always wrong, all of the time.
And on this issue, the majority of Americans are on their side.

Maybe we'd be better off not making the terrorists in the first place?

I always feel like I'm more intimidating in a hoodie.

Tancredulous. Yet another fine mental abortion from the Right.

This is about racism, pure and simple. Instead of harping about the Jews or blacks, the bigots have found something to hang their hats on post 9-11. And it resonates with a lot of people who probably aren't bigots, don't understand the hidden agendas, but think this is all about keeping Al Queda out of the country. Tancredo is a bonafide idiot...I mean this literally. The man is pretty damned dumb. What type of constituency elevated this dipshit to national leadership? Who are his constituents?

I can not tell you how EMBARRASSING it is to have to admit that Tom Tancredo is MY congressman.

On behalf of all of the Democrats, and other people of good will, living in Colorado's 6th Congressional District, I want to APOLOGIZE to America, and the World.

Krash

You've got to love that slogan though. There's something cartoonishly over the top about it that, for me, turns outrage into "Oh, you've got to be kidding".

Tancredo... Before it's too late.

I mean, come on. Really?

Have a good day.
John Cage

The immigration policy is not really a liberal conservative issue. I am as liberal as they come. Further my wife of twenty years was an illegal alien and I fixed her papers. I find that I am more in line with Tancredo than Hilliary. Here is why. Firstly the population growth associated with immigration is unsustainalbe. Every major problem we face as a nation can be traced in large part to over population. Most of our rivers are poluted to the point we can not eat the fish in them. Roads are over crowed, engergy consumption is rising with dwindling supplies. We are currently a nation of 300 million. The good new is that number is static. The bad news is we can sustain about half of that with out trashing the enviornment. The really bad news is our projected population thirty five to forty years from now is 600 million due to immigration primarily illegal immigration. We currently represent 5% of the world population and consume 20-25% of the resources. It should be immeadiatly obvious 600 million is not sustianalble. What kind of America do we want to leave our children.

The arguments for immigration and illegal immigration are: We are a nation of immigrants, we must be compassionate, and our economy needs them. Lets address each individually.

We are a nation of immigrants. This is true, but it does not represent a argument. This same arugment would justifly slavery and segregation. We have that history as well. We have changed many past behaviours like how we allow mining, voting, and so on. I would point out when we were encouraging immigration, it was a great expense to the navtive american. We basically took thier assets and gave them to europeans.

Second point is we must be compassionate. I agree. Agian its not that simple. We must choose who gets our compassion. We have poor disadvataged that are american. Illigal immigration allows business to further exploit labor. A major reason we have no health care is that employers have no pressure to offer beneifits. As long as we allow cheap labor, or oursourcing within the US health care will not happen and wages will remain low and our poor will stay poor.

Our economy needs them. I know coorporate America likes cheap labor. Most of these individuals have less than a high school education and for the most part are functionally illiterate. They pay 10K in taxes and use 30K in social resources. Tax payers are subsidizing Tyeson chickens 20K per person for the cheap labor. If tyeson had to follow the law like everyone else, the labor would not be so cheap. And the result is we have low paying jobs that is erroding the middle class. Further if we really need an uneducated class, why are we spending so much money on education.

I would be interested in real responses to my reasoning
very respectfully to all