Tom Tancredo's Greatest Hits (VIDEO)

Ahh, Tom Tancredo. With a personality straight out of a David Mamet play and a healthy dislike for anything remotely Hispanic, the Tanc has long been one of the larger anger-grizzlies to stalk the political landscape. And for his latest trick, Tancredo has mounted what amounts to a spite-campaign for the Colorado statehouse, running on the platform that the Colorado GOP and its chosen contenders are terrible and should shut up and listen to him, or else.

The "or else" in this case pretty much means handing the governor's race to Democratic nominee and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, who in the most recent Nate Silver math-geek model was accorded a 96.8% chance of winning. But Tancredo has had his success: he's currently running second in the three-way race, pushing the GOP's own nominee, Dan Maes, to the fringes. Maes, who's running short on money and options, is best known for making crazy exaggerations about his life in law enforcement and making the claim that Denver's bike-sharing program is a secret United Nations plot to undermine America.

Of course, this is but a soupcon of the bonkersauce, compared to the tureen of same that Tancredo has amassed in his political lifetime. But as we stroll back down memory lane, one thing that we can fairly say about the Tanc, is that he has at least projected his rage and insanity with a level of competence that his sad-sack GOP opponent simply cannot match.

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Tom Tancredo told an audience at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville earlier this year that "Mostly because I think we do not have a civics literacy test, people who could not even spell the word 'vote', or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. Name is Barack Hussein Obama." In 1975, the Supreme Court enacted a permanent ban on literacy tests citing the "long history of the discriminatory use of literacy tests to disenfranchise voters on account of their race."

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Tom Tancredo told an audience at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville earlier this year that "Mostly because I think we do not have a civics literacy test, people who could not even spell the word 'vote', or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. Name is Barack Hussein Obama."

In 1975, the Supreme Court enacted a permanent ban on literacy tests citing the "long history of the discriminatory use of literacy tests to disenfranchise voters on account of their race."

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[R Car]

12:17 PM on 10/21/2010

Dem disregard all the 2010 polls and get out and vote on November 2, 2010. It's obvious, there is a concerted effort by the our corporate MSM, the GOP, corporations and Gallop and other polling services to keep dems from voting on November 2, 2010.

Gallup's Likely Voter Model Has Fatal Flaw - NDN Challenges Gallup To Revise or Drop its 2010 Election Polling

http://ndn­.org/blog/­2010/10/ga­llups-like­ly-voter-m­odel-has-f­atal-flaw-­ndn-challe­nges-gallu­p-revise-o­r-drop-its­-2010


Gallup Scandal. Urged to STOP Polling Immediately.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/21/912204/-Gallup-Scandal.-Urged-to-STOP-Polling-Immediately

[gtx281]

03:04 AM on 10/21/2010

Markos owned him. Talk about striking a nerve. haha, wow.

[desertdweller]

02:24 PM on 10/20/2010

Is it me, or does Tancredo look a lot like Sharron Angle without the Sonny Bono wig?

[ebanks84]

12:57 PM on 10/20/2010

Tancredo is a "hater" and very prejudiced. He can't believe blacks are taking over his precious America like they have in the presidency alone. He can't understand how a black man can be that smart, even smarter than himself. He's of the mindset that black people are too ignorant and uneducated to hold that type of a position. He will "never" understand or accept that a black man is his leader now. So he will say anything, do anything, any anyway he can to disown or disavow Obama's presidency.

He will one day rue the life he has lived and how he has lived it. But for now, he will never understand or recognize his frailties until he's completely down and out with no one to pick him up but the one person he would never expect. That one person is out there right now but he doesn't even know it.

[desertdweller]

02:28 PM on 10/20/2010

There was a time when Italian immigrants were spit on and discriminated against. I have numerous Italian-American friends and relatives and cannot comprehend the bigotry expressed by some of them towards others; Irish, Blacks, Jews, you name it. Ooh-fa!

[ebanks84]

07:06 PM on 10/20/2010

Seems like all whites, no matter their ethnicity, found a common cause to come together against, the minorities that are"not" white. There used to be a time in my day when the Je.wish people would be more conducive to treating blacks more fair than today as well. So it looks like people change, no matter what their color or ethnicity when they feel threatened. And blacks, as a whole, are no threat to anybody really!

[Albertmum]

12:03 PM on 10/20/2010

I am positively horrified that someone in my neighborhood actually has a tancredo sign in their yard.

[nick1936]

11:18 AM on 10/20/2010

There should be one for running just look at that Dip Shit from Delaware Christine the witch

[busterbrownthefirst]

11:16 AM on 10/20/2010

To those of you who find this amusing: I assure you, it's not. He's running for the Governor of Colorado, and he's polling only five points behind the Democrat. If a Republican were not also running, Tancredo would probably be our next governor.

Tancredo won't win on his ideas, each of which is more insane than the next. If he wins it will be because everyone is furious and desperate. And to address that? Nothing. We have a flat-out denial by the White House that the President actually needs to tell people about the GOOD things Democrats have done, and about what obstructionists the far right has been. I am beginning to wonder if Obama's deafening silence is due to a political strategy that says that if Republicans take control now, he'll have more to campaign against in 2012.

If that's true, screw that. The country cannot afford to throw away two years so that Obama can have a second term. So, Coloradans! This election is NOT a sure thing. Would you please be sure you vote, and all your friends and neighbors vote?

ALSO--there is an excellent chance that Buck will be our next Senator. He's on par with Tancredo, although a possible difference is that Buck is actually worse for women. (For examples, no abortions for women even with rape and incest. Insurance companies don't have to pay for mammograms.) And six years, compared to a Tancredo governorship, is also more disastrous.

[salsmom]

11:15 AM on 10/20/2010

As a parent, I truly wonder what it was like for any Hispanic students (assuming he didn't purposely live in a district where he did not have to interact with them) to have this guy as a teacher. I cannot believe you hold these feelings deep in your bones and do not play out these bigotries in your every day life.

[justoverit333]

08:51 AM on 10/20/2010

He's losing. Phew.

[joeblow]

06:46 AM on 10/20/2010

Wow! Looking at this old photo album is truly a walk down memory lane....a chance to relive so many nightmares. Except, anything that smacks of horror and dementia and involving Tom Tancredo is true.
But, what I like most about this nostalgic trip is that Markos Militous (sp) hit Tancredo with the thing he fears the most; truth.
Tancredo knows it wasn't depression that made him seek a deferrment from the military during the Viet Nam war. It was cowardice, the kind of which so many others did not conveniently use.
I am willing to bet that within hours of receiving his deferrment letter, Tancredo and some of his buddies were out drinking beer (illegally) and celebrating that he 'dodged' the draft.
Everytime anyone thinks about The Wall, the Viet Nam memorial, thank Tancredo for the sacrifices for this country he made and compare them with the sacrifices those faceless names on the Wall made.
Tancredo: You know what you are and as long as you live, I hope you're shamed by it.

[whatdayouthink]

05:01 PM on 10/20/2010

Tancredo is a poor excuse for a human being.

[mech126]

03:53 AM on 10/20/2010

Does nut job mean anything today, because i don't know anymore.....

[mech126]

03:51 AM on 10/20/2010

All i want to know is he sane....

[bigfated]

07:08 AM on 10/20/2010

mech 126:
Is he sane? Of course not. People really in control of their own sanity do NOT opt to be republican. That move almost REQUIRES a bit of insanity.

[Philimanjaro]

11:02 AM on 10/20/2010

Ugh. I'm astonished at the childish things people say.

[mech126]

03:44 AM on 10/20/2010

All i have to say is "NUT JOB", nuff said.....

[storeysound]

02:08 AM on 10/20/2010

The Pope is recruiting illegal aliens to swell the Catholic ranks? News flash, Tom. The illegal immigrants from Latin America are mostly Catholic already. They don't have to be in the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church is not an American institution.

[NJProgressiveIndie]

02:05 AM on 10/20/2010

Hey Tom:

V-O-T-E

and

U-P Y-O-U-R-S