Tancredo hits their buttons

In the GOP debate last night, Tom Tancredo delivered the message that makes him the most important political figure in the country. He went beyond the illegal immigration/amnesty issue and said that the country needs a moratorium on all legal immigration (except for immediate family members of U.S. citizens and refugees). The rest of the candidates including Rudolph Giuliani were shocked and grossed out that anyone could say such a thing. They ganged up on Tancredo and expressed their utter disgust with him, as though he had said he favored the legalization of child molestation. The problem with that comparison is, of course, that Giuliani used to march every year in Homosexual Pride parades that prominently featured a national organization devoted to the legalization of child molestation.

As I said yesterday, look at whom the mainstream Republicans welcome (God-haters and child-molesters), and whom they revile (patriots).

I love Tom Tancredo because he is doing on the national and presidential level what I am doing on the much more modest scale of this website: challenging the liberal orthodoxy on basic principle and refusing to compromise with it. Yes, that makes people treat you with contempt, but it is only by taking a truthful stand against liberalism, and continuing to adhere to it despite all attacks, that there is any chance of slowly leading liberals to see the falsity of their liberalism.

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Michael Jose writes:

In your recent post, you mentioned Tom Tancredo’s important point regarding legal immigration.

Ron Paul also brought up an important issue, coming out against birthright citizenship (see 5:50-5:40 in the video, note that times count down so that 0:00 is at the end and 6:56 is at the beginning). (No transcript yet.)).

I think it’s too bad that we couldn’t have a debate between Paul and Tancredo.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 06, 2007 06:12 PM | Send