| Page 3 of 3 < |
Tongues Sharpened for Debate
|
TOOLBOX
   Resize
COMMENT
 Discussion Policy
 CLOSE
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post.
Who's Blogging  |
His staff confirmed the decision, which Tancredo spilled first in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News yesterday. "I really believe I have done all I can do in the House," Tancredo told the Denver paper.
Tancredo has campaigned for the GOP nomination with zeal, focusing most of his passion on illegal immigration, which he cites frequently as the biggest problem the country faces.
In debates, at campaign stops and in campaign commercials, Tancredo pushes for strict border enforcement, construction of a border fence and efforts to return illegal immigrants to their native countries.
But his hard-line views on the issue have not translated into support in the polls, where he consistently languishes at the bottom.
Nor has it earned him the support of the Republican money establishment, which has concluded that Tancredo's brand of aggressive, in-your-face confrontation about immigration is not what voters want.
Still, Tancredo has shown little desire to follow former Wisconsin governor Tommy G. Thompson and Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback out of the contest. Instead, he will abandon his House seat to devote his energies to the presidential campaign, his staff said.
-- Michael D. Shear
