Posted on 11/07/2006 10:19:10 PM PST by NapkinUser
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo won Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, beating Democratic challenger Bill Winter.
Tancredo, a Republican often at odds with his own party and seeking a fifth term , has gained a nationwide reputation as a staunch opponent of the rising influx of illegal immigrants in the country. Tancredo supports dramatically increased border security and a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants.
Winter, a 10-year veteran of the Navy and Marine Corps, championed veterans’ rights and universal health care, and endorsed President Bush’s call for a guest-worker program and economic development in Latin America as a means of stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.
The 6th District spans parts of Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Jefferson and Park counties. It is home to 498,000 registered voters.
Good for him. Did he face meaningful opposition?
Bill Winter, who had plenty of money and was the darling of the left-wing websites like DU and especially Daily Kos.
And Brian Bilbray is winning. What's your point?
He was one of the most deserving to win. I am glad he did.
Tancredo is an idiot.
He is one of the main reasons the party got divided. He pushed a message of division. Division Of The Party!!!!!
Not to mention he is full of shit. When chances to push votes on amendments and legislation to have real immigration reform....he went to the leadership and asked them to table it.
Calling one of the most conservative members of congress an idiot. You sure you're on the right forum?
That guy scares the hell out of me.
It takes a skunk to win. What good does this guy do even being there?All he did was condem the pres, now he can sit in the minority while the demos court the very people he condemed mainly the hispanic vote. It figures this guy would win all he did was condem his own party to the hills and the pres of his own party. It is good for a rat to join the rats. His issue is doa dead in the water and if he runs for president I won't vote for the first time in my life. Crossed eyed Tom can sit alone. That goes for Mccain too.
only an idiot, or a liberal, thinks illegal immigration is not a real issue.
Oh its an issue alright , but now it is a dead issue who do you think any illegal will vote for.Crossed eyed Tom can sit alone in the congress in a corner and nobody is going to listen.Me a liberal , no way I at least knew that condeming the reps would only bring the demos and more illegals here. Have fun learn Spanish now you will need it.
oh yea... and condemning a republican for not dealing with the issue brought in more illegals?? how'd you establish that logic? and btw, the 'demos' were already here. the 'new' demos were the republicans that switched sides because they didn't like the gop behaving like dems.
as for learning spanish, by not standing up against it, i would assume you along with the rest of the turn-a-blind-eye gop were already signing up for lessons.
That's what I was going to say.
The "Enforcement only wins elections" theory is officially dead for any reasonable person.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Tom Tancredo is conservative kind of like Maxine Waters is liberal.
Neither do their party any good. Matter of fact, they do a lot more to derail their own cause then help it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
If being 'true to your beliefs' includes bashing the possibility of increased 'legal' immigration, then yes, it's harmful to the conservative cause.
but then... why have immigration limits at all, if you keep raising the bar to let more and more in. (and folks are wondering why the GOP lost some of its base...)
Tom Tancredo did as much to get the bill passed to build a fence and to put the breaks on amnesty as anyone in Washington.
Like the strength of his voice or not, he brought the issue to the forefront.
You could argue that Jeff Sessions did so less caustically, but there's not doubting who kept the pressure on the White House.
Hey...that's funny...now we can spend the next two years saying "It's Tancredo's fault"
...get a clue why don't ya.
but then... why have immigration limits at all, if you keep raising the bar to let more and more in. (and folks are wondering why the GOP lost some of its base...)
See, you are a walking example of someone who just doesn't get it. This isn't an anti-illegal-immigration view, it's an anti-immigration view, and it's a big part of why good folks like JD Hayworth went down tonight. Americans like things done legally, but they don't mind Mexicans in general, they like them, and they don't mind more of them coming as long as they have jobs.
I personally like free markets. If we allow the amount of legal immigrants to be set to supply = demand, we won't have a serious problem. What's more, we can focus on real threats, like terrorists and drug dealers, because those folks who just want to come and pick fruit can do so legally.
There is a Democrat majority in Congress tonight because the GOP did not stand up to illegal immigration. Period.
Tancredo has got it. That's why he won. The GOP lost because it wobbled over immigration. The GOP base is still white, and whites don't want to live in the US of Mexico. It is that simple.
Don't worry. Some smartass pundit or GOP adviser will eventually get it, and go running to Bush yelling it was the immigration issue. But then it will be too late. These characters always miss the train.
No it is not. If the Whitehouse pushes a shamnesty through the congress, it will push a enough conservatives off the reservation that they can forget abotu 2008. It is time to run to the base not away from it.
You do not get it either. A shamnesty is so repugnant to so many conservatives that if passed that they will walk in 2008.
Bilbray's district is so heavily gerrymandered that there was no way he could lose.
Maybe, so but if an amnesty is pasted enough of us will walk off to cripple the republicans in 2008.
Exactly, if the GOP is a bunch of RINOs theres no real choice. I will vote Tancredo for president in 08 even if I must write him in.
so you promote open borders. how very.. conservative.. of you
Will Lou Dobbs hold Nancy pelosi's feet to the fire about immigration
BTW, you do know that two of Tancredo's biggest followers lost big last night, J.D Hayworth and Randy Graf.
Uh hydro, you do know that the biggest gains for the dems were candidates who ran as GOP lite.
If those candidates had run as they pelosi clones they are, the results from last night would have been different.
But why am I trying to talk to sense to you. You voted for uber liberal kinky friedman.
Ergo, the GOP will front Guillani/Romney. Or McCain/Romney. Or RINO/RINO.
Anything other than taking a principled stand.
Hello, the pressure is history. Now he is toast the demos do not need this guy and could care less. If you think the demos are going to anything about the very same people who put them in office yesterday , you are sadly mistaken. Buchanan is now history , his words attacking the reps mean nothing, Tencredo is just a guy the demos will sit in the corner and laugh at, and of course Coulter they no longer need her to condem the White House , face it they all went down with the ship. If you think that only the canidates lost last night you are sadly mistaken.That includes a lot of conservative talk show hosts and conservative talk radio. Learn Spanish, and get ready for impeachment that is next.OH one more thing I voted conservative, too bad you guys could not get your votes to the polls. How does it feel to shoot your foot off?
Hello, the pressure is history. Now he is toast the demos do not need this guy and could care less. If you think the demos are going to anything about the very same people who put them in office yesterday , you are sadly mistaken. Buchanan is now history , his words attacking the reps mean nothing, Tencredo is just a guy the demos will sit in the corner and laugh at, and of course Coulter they no longer need her to condem the White House , face it they all went down with the ship. If you think that only the canidates lost last night you are sadly mistaken.That includes a lot of conservative talk show hosts and conservative talk radio. Learn Spanish, and get ready for impeachment that is next.OH one more thing I voted conservative, too bad you guys could not get your votes to the polls. How does it feel to shoot your foot off?
"BTW, you do know that two of Tancredo's biggest followers lost big last night, J.D Hayworth and Randy Graf."
Everyone knew Randy Graf wasn't going to win (neither would Huffman or anyone else back in that primary, at the very least a message was sent.) Losing J.D. Hayworth hurts, such a great man and speaker, right on so many issues.
Are you happy about that Dane? Plus you might want to actually look at the results before you called Hayworth's lose "big." It was somewhat of a squeaker.
P.S.: Brian Bilbray and Jean Schmidt, both very strong on illegal immigration and thought to be in close races, won.
The fight goes on. Tancredo won. Though your donation to socialist Bill Winter was welcomed by him.
I agrfee with him 98% of the time, but he decided to go down the incindiary Tancredo route and lost.
Yeah and your vote for kinky friedman proved that.
Like I said before to you, go down to your nearest used car lot and talk to the salesman, you will probably enjoy the experience of being lied to.
Ergo, the GOP will front Guillani/Romney. Or McCain/Romney. Or RINO/RINO.
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That's what the Republican establishment will try to do. We need to work hard to stop them.
Yeah... because that has worked so well in the past.
We need a change of GOP leadership. Find someone with a SPINE and a record of conservative principles who's not afriad to spit in the liberals eyes and boot the RINO's poisoning the party.
Since that isn't going to happen, we'll get a full court press from the GOP and the Lame Stream Media for a poll driven McCain ticket.
This will ensure a Hillary/Obama win in 2008.
If you know a way around that, let me know. Because absent a major sea change towards smaller government Constitutionalism, I don't see it happening.
He was a dang sight more conservative then the tax and spend Gov Goodhair, who won the vote with only 39%. What does it say about a sitting republican governor who in TX can only get 39% of the vote, even after GWB comes and campaigns for him.
Yeah, Hayworth lost because of his border stance. Whatever makes you feel good Dane. It can't have anything to do with the current national discontent with president Bush and the GOP, right?
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