Want to know how nuts Tom Tancredo is?

[Hawkeye-X]

"Tancredo, he's pretty good. I would probably vote for him for President,"

- David Duke

I shit you not, folks.

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This quote came from The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060410/blumenthal

Republicanizing the Race Card
by MAX BLUMENTHAL


It would have been like any ordinary Saturday afternoon at the Dulles Hyatt. Inside the lobby of the sterile suburban Northern Virginia hotel, a gray-haired man busied himself at a baby grand piano, filling the room with the sound of schmaltzy jazz standards. Traveling businessmen sat around chatting, puffing cigars, drinking cocktails and chortling at one another's quips. In the corner a woman cradled a sleeping baby. It would have been like any Saturday at the Hyatt, except for the obvious plainclothes cops guarding the hotel's entrances, the employees forbidden by management from speaking to lurking reporters and the presence, in a hallway, of the beaming white supremacist David Duke, surrounded by a gaggle of admirers.

"The Jewish supremacists not only want to control Israel, they want to control America, Europe and the whole world," Duke announced to a dozen men who crowded around to hear his every word. "The best thing we can do is expose Jewish influence. Then one day the world will rise up, people will fill the streets and call general strikes--just like in Europe."

Duke had arrived at the American Renaissance conference spry and apparently untouched by the ravages of age. After several rounds of plastic surgery and with enough rouge on his cheeks to make Tammy Faye Bakker blush, he is the neo-Nazi answer to Dorian Gray. Though Duke's vanity distinguished him from his fellow "white nationalists" who converged for the two-day conference, he was not alone in his struggle to remain relevant and distinctive in a complex political climate where most of the ultra-right's signature issues have been co-opted by pseudo-populist media personalities and Republican politicians.

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more at:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060410/blumenthal

[CrispyQ]

1. Thank you!

I will happily send a few bucks his way to get Tancredo out of office.

[RagingInMiami]

2. Now that is a perfect example of immigrant assimilation

When a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan supports the grandson of a Roman Catholic Italian immigrant, then you know we are truly living in a melting pot. It almost brings tears to my eyes.