Former Presidential Candidate Tom Tancredo Quitting Republican Party
Source: The Denver Post-8 hours ago
Tom Tancredo, the outspoken former GOP congressman from Colorado, said he is calling it quits with the Republican Party.
In a column posted Friday, Tancredo wrote he would switch his voter registration to unaffiliated because the Republican Party no longer fights for its values and principles of smaller government, individual rights, fiscal responsibility, and free enterprise.
By insulting the grassroots, the GOP leadership has set upon a suicide mission, wrote Tancredo. The problem is that failed leadership is allowing President Obama to destroy the Constitution and take the whole country down the drain. Well, count me out.
The Boehner budget deal is the last straw, and enough is enough. I cannot any longer defend this transparently dishonest charade called the Republican Party.
Read more: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2015/10/30/tom-tancredo-says-hes-quitting-republican-party-again/123638/
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Election, which would pretty much guarantee a Democratic win.
I am waiting for Republicans to announce that they are starting a new party.
randr
(12,414 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Maybe he is the first of the tea party stampede. I hope so. Let's git r done!
big_dog
(4,144 posts)while we unify
Maeve
(42,288 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)Have you ever heard anything funnier? His humor is fantastic.
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Heading out of town?
adios.
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AllyCat
(16,222 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)Tancredo left the GOP in 2010 when he ran for governor as the candidate of the American Constitution Party.
You'd think he'd get it through his thick skull that his leaving the party doesn't throw them into fits of panic. He's definitely one of Colorado's weirder politicos, nasty and racist to boot.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Just kidding, I think.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)They're lucky to be rid of him.
randr
(12,414 posts)possibly by the end of the year.
Ryan will have to create a coalition with the Democrats and move important legislation forward in order to preserve any fragment of what will be left of the GOP.
We have already begun to see a battle arising between the Teabaggers and old guard Republicans.
Get out the popcorn it is going to be an epic battle.
bigworld
(1,807 posts)randr
(12,414 posts)from tea party influence if he holds the flock to a "no outside support" platform.
I'm not counting on it. Even the billionaires buying up the teaparty candidates hate Trump.
brush
(53,843 posts)in his party?
Grins
(7,228 posts)Lemmee restate that for 'ya, Tommy:
"Republicans believe in smaller government while acting against the interests of working Americans and individual rights while laboring to deprive "certain" Americans of their vote, fiscal responsibility (Bwahahahahaha) and macroeconomic fantasies while voting for deadly un-funded and un-taxed foreign adventures that have robbed us of trillions in treasure and convincing bigots and imbeciles to commit economic suicide for the greater glory of tax cuts, free enterprise and deregulation wherein the average worker is dismantled in place and abandoned while corporate profits soar, favored the unafflicted, pushed anti-woman and anti-choice abortion restrictions, wants to boot people from healthcare and gut public education, proclaim to love the Constitution while screaming for secession and romanticizing violent revolution, all the while considering themselves to be patriots."
There. Fixed it.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)We are filled to the brim with Third Way Republican light.
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)would have anything to do with this loon.
Gloria
(17,663 posts)I guess I was wrong