He's Ba-a--a-ack!
Tom "Nuke Mecca" Tancredo might not be garnering a lot of support (or money), but he's determined to stay in the GOP race for President. All along he has maintained that the single biggest issue facing the US is not the Iraq War, not the erosion of civil liberties at home, not the loss of US standing in the world, not world climate change, not the worsening US economy, but illegal immigration. To prove it, he has produced a new campaign ad designed to get America's attention on the really important stuff. From today's Los Angeles Times:
Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo on Monday unveiled a television ad depicting a hooded terrorist detonating a bomb inside a shopping mall, a message the Colorado congressman said he hoped would vault illegal immigration to its rightful place at the center of the campaign.
The Tancredo ad begins with the image of a gloved hand jamming a bomb into a backpack. Then it follows a hooded figure, whose face cannot be seen, strolling through a mall as a narrator decries "20 million aliens who have come to take our jobs" and "Islamic terrorists [who] now freely roam U.S. soil."
Footage of bombed-out trains and a boy bloodied in an overseas terrorist attack follow, then pictures of shoppers and a woman pushing a stroller through an airy mall. As the hooded figure leaves the backpack beside a bench and walks away, the narrator announces: "The price we pay for spineless politicians who refuse to defend our borders against those who come to kill." Then the explosion sounds. [Emphasis added]
Now that's an interesting equation, since most of the people entering the US illegally at the present time are coming from Mexico and Latin America (and are Hispanic) across the southern border, but the 9/11 terrorists came through the East Coast with legitimate visas (and were Arab). We did nab one evil-doer prior to 2000 at the Canadian border, but as I recall, he wasn't exactly Mexican, and he really wasn't sneaking across.
But that doesn't bother Tom Terrific; they're all the same: they're illegal and they're brown. Fortunately, there is one thing going for folks who are already gritting their teeth at the upcoming election television ad campaigns:
When candidates last reported on their finances at the end of September, Tancredo had $110,079 on hand. That would seem to limit use of the ad, titled "Tough on Terror."
Indeed.
Confession: I did not actually view the ad, but for those who are curious, it is available here.
Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo on Monday unveiled a television ad depicting a hooded terrorist detonating a bomb inside a shopping mall, a message the Colorado congressman said he hoped would vault illegal immigration to its rightful place at the center of the campaign.
The Tancredo ad begins with the image of a gloved hand jamming a bomb into a backpack. Then it follows a hooded figure, whose face cannot be seen, strolling through a mall as a narrator decries "20 million aliens who have come to take our jobs" and "Islamic terrorists [who] now freely roam U.S. soil."
Footage of bombed-out trains and a boy bloodied in an overseas terrorist attack follow, then pictures of shoppers and a woman pushing a stroller through an airy mall. As the hooded figure leaves the backpack beside a bench and walks away, the narrator announces: "The price we pay for spineless politicians who refuse to defend our borders against those who come to kill." Then the explosion sounds. [Emphasis added]
Now that's an interesting equation, since most of the people entering the US illegally at the present time are coming from Mexico and Latin America (and are Hispanic) across the southern border, but the 9/11 terrorists came through the East Coast with legitimate visas (and were Arab). We did nab one evil-doer prior to 2000 at the Canadian border, but as I recall, he wasn't exactly Mexican, and he really wasn't sneaking across.
But that doesn't bother Tom Terrific; they're all the same: they're illegal and they're brown. Fortunately, there is one thing going for folks who are already gritting their teeth at the upcoming election television ad campaigns:
When candidates last reported on their finances at the end of September, Tancredo had $110,079 on hand. That would seem to limit use of the ad, titled "Tough on Terror."
Indeed.
Confession: I did not actually view the ad, but for those who are curious, it is available here.
Labels: Election 2008, Immigration
posted by Diane at 1:05 PM
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