CO: Rasmussen: With Maes collapsing further, Tancredo right behind Hickenlooper

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The key here is momentum. If Tancredo is to win he has to keep the momentum on his side.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Disgusting. I think Colorado is smarter than to elect a fascist, but I could be proven wrong. In which case Colorado would automatically join Alabama and Oklahoma on my black list.

Yes, Tancredo believes in undying devotion to the state above all else, militarism and conquest of sovereign nations

Didn't he say that the US should bomb Mecca?

And you think he really meant it? I find it rather depressing that many candidates are judged based on only a handful of gaffes.

Besides, he's running for Governor, not President, so foreign policy views are irrelevant.

He actually came out against the Arizona immigration law awhile ago, fwiw.

He's such a reasonable fellow that he supports literacy tests before voting. Not like those have a disgustingly racist history, or anything.

Where did you read that?

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/80005-tancredo-tells-tea-partiers-literacy-test-would-have-stopped-obama

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http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-denver/tancredo-states-civics-literacy-test-not-racially-biased

Theoretically speaking, if all people were equally or all the races were equally educated, would it be discriminatory?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Disgusting. I think Colorado is smarter than to elect a fascist, but I could be proven wrong. In which case Colorado would automatically join Alabama and Oklahoma on my black list.

Yes, Tancredo believes in undying devotion to the state above all else, militarism and conquest of sovereign nations

Didn't he say that the US should bomb Mecca?

And you think he really meant it? I find it rather depressing that many candidates are judged based on only a handful of gaffes.

Besides, he's running for Governor, not President, so foreign policy views are irrelevant.

He actually came out against the Arizona immigration law awhile ago, fwiw.

He's such a reasonable fellow that he supports literacy tests before voting. Not like those have a disgustingly racist history, or anything.

Where did you read that?

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/80005-tancredo-tells-tea-partiers-literacy-test-would-have-stopped-obama

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http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-denver/tancredo-states-civics-literacy-test-not-racially-biased

Theoretically speaking, if all people were equally or all the races were equally educated, would it be discriminatory?

Don't make stupid comments.

That wasn't a comment. It was a question, you should know the difference. I think Tancredo was having a pie in the sky moment about a perfect society, you and Marokai thinks he is a racist. Either prove you and marokai are right or don't waste me time.

Its a dumb comment from a politician I hold little regard for, but I am sick of accepting standard assumptions about things. I am not going to beleive he is racist because that fits best with your incorrect view of the world.

You say he is racist, prove it beyond this trash. So far you have only proven that Tancredo is stupid and has a big mouth, not that he is a racist.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Suppose it is enacted with an Australian style mandatory voting law, is it still racist?

They have to pass the test to vote and they have to vote.


Sure would increase a lot of people's IQs and that would be fun to watch though nearly impossible to do, but we are talking theoretically.

Let me put like this, if you are Theodore Bilbo and you want a Civics test to keep blacks from voting, that is racist.

If you are Tom Tancredo and you want a civics test to increase the knowledge of the founding documents and reduce ignorance in voting. He isn't racist, but he is an ignorancist and unrealistic.

There are a million ways to make it an equal opportunity thing to remove a racist element.

Unless you can show me a comment with Tancredo specifically saying "insert race" needs to be prevented from voting, we need civics tests before voting, you haven't proven he is racist. Stop the political grandstanding and politically biased assumptions.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Damn, and I thought I would get credit for destroying this thread.