Former Presidential Candidate Tom Tancredo Quitting Republican Party

[big_dog]

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]

1. The blind leaving the blind ? Who's crazier, Tancredo or the TPers ? Pretty hard to decide. nt

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. The Boehner Budget will keep the Teaparty from shutting down the government before the General

Election, which would pretty much guarantee a Democratic win.

I am waiting for Republicans to announce that they are starting a new party.

[randr]

3. He may create a stampede

[passiveporcupine]

4. That's what I was thinking

Maybe he is the first of the tea party stampede. I hope so. Let's git r done!

[big_dog]

5. GOP convention fight 2016! weaken the nominee even worse than last time

while we unify

[Maeve]

15. Go, lemmings, go! eom

[Judi Lynn]

6. I cannot any longer defend this transparently dishonest charade called the Republican Party.”"

Have you ever heard anything funnier? His humor is fantastic.

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Heading out of town?



adios.

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[AllyCat]

7. The headline drew me in hoping for reason. What I saw was another wingnut

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Again?

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]

9. "I've done my damage here; goodbye."

[dreamnightwind]

10. How long till DWS runs him as a red district Democrat?

Just kidding, I think.

[Scuba]

12. Ooops, you beat me to it.

[47of74]

13. Any day now.

[Scuba]

11. In the latest development, DINO Debbie invited Tom to join "her" Democratic Party.

[Paladin]

14. Even by Republican standards, Tancredo is a moron.

They're lucky to be rid of him.

[randr]

16. We will see the emergence of a new politcal party

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]

17. And with Trump in the mix who knows what'll happen.

[randr]

18. Trump could possibly remove the billionaires

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]

20. You think Ryan will have any better luck than Boehner in herding the cats . . .

in his party?

[Grins]

19. "....Republicans believe in..."

"....Republicans believe in smaller government, individual rights, fiscal responsibility, and free enterprise."

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]

21. please oh please stay out of the Democratic party.

We are filled to the brim with Third Way Republican light.

[DavidDvorkin]

22. There's no chance that the Colorado Democratic Party

would have anything to do with this loon.

[Gloria]

23. I thought he died...

I guess I was wrong