Tom Tancredo: My newest bestest favorite (R) candidate

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How can you not like a guy like Tom for the Republican nomination?

After all, he represents the mainstream in Republican politics.

Behold:

http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=877567A6-0486-EBF2-D900904ED664A7C5

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Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo says it's time to repeal the federal gas tax.

Tancredo says the tax was established decades ago to build the federal highway system and that job is now done. Tancredo believes states, then, could keep levying that per-gallon tax and would end up spending the money better than the feds do.

"You also accomplish the task of telling the federal government to go fly a kite when they start demanding things like changing (state) laws with regard to highways: seat belts, speed limits, all the rest of that stuff," Tancredo says.

One of those federal pressure points over the years has been about state laws which require motorcyclists to wear a helmet. Tancredo, a congressman from Colorado, led the push 30 years ago to repeal Colorado's manditory helmet law. "I was in the state legislature -- I'd just gotten elected in '76 -- and I was the sponsor of that bill," Tancredo says.

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So, helmets, seat belts, highway maintenance, speed limits? Nah, we don't need 'em.

I love the Republican candidates. The more America hears from them, the better.