Tom Tancredo: My newest bestest favorite (R) candidate

[stevedeshazer]

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.

[bluestateguy]

1. The cost of gas would not change

The federal government would have drastically less money for highway projects, desperately craved by the states. So the states would just raise their gas taxes accordingly.

[mrcheerful]

3. But in republican controled states there would be a lot of new roads to

rich peoples houses. See it in this city all the time, urban roads full of pot holes get into the wealthy areas, roads are almost new, get on the other side of the rich areas pot hole city.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Wonder how many lives those helmets and seat belts saved.

What a jackass. May the GOPers suddenly find him the most riveting, charismatic standard-bearer they could ever hope to have in their lineup!

[knight_of_the_star]

4. Excellent

PLEASE let him get the nod, he'll be so easy to take down we could run Lenin and still beat him.

[CGowen]

5. Maybe, but we need NAFTA Highways with tolls now n/t

[shenmue]

6. Yeah! Crashes!

Wooooo! Let's all die!

:sarcasm:

:woohoo:

:dunce:

[primative1]

7. Three Stooges .... "The Movie"

What I saw when I watched the debate of these guys was like a tryout for parts in the Stooges tribute movie .... Which makes me wonder where the actual challenge will come from. This is shaping up like the Lieberman Senatorial campaign in 04 where the GOP put their worst foot forward and then all piled into an "independent" vehicle.