The Daily Plunge

Hola! Me llamo Tomas Tancredo. Soy de Colorado.

In a previous post, dated July 24, 2010, Yours Truly predicted that Scott McInnis would be Colorado’s Republican candidate for governor, despite charges of plagiarism. I also predicted that Tom Tancredo would not end up running as a third-party candidate and that, ultimately, Colorado would be saddled with another liberty-killing, job-killing, tax-and-spend, regulating liberal, current Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.

Months later, it turns out that I was wrong on just about every count. And, my final prediction about Hickenlooper’s ascension to the governor’s mansion is increasingly coming into doubt. A recent poll shows Tancredo only four points behind Hickenlooper, which is within the margin of error, especially considering that six percent said they were undecided.

Meanwhile, Dan Maes, who won the Republican primary, is dropping into oblivion, fighting his own round of ethics problems. What those are, I’m not sure, but it is certain that Republicans are having buyer’s remorse and are moving in droves back to Tancredo.

In late August, the same Rasmussen poll had Maes at 31 percent and Tancredo at 18 percent. Now, Tancredo’s at 38 and Maes is down to 12, which shows that just about anything can and will happen in this election. Therefore, I apologize for my earlier post, which simply repeated the conventional wisdom.

Tancredo is well known as practically a one-issue candidate. Whatever the policy issue being debated, Tancredo is almost certain to bring it back around to illegal immigration. He’s been laser-focused on this issue for as long as I can remember, before, during and after his time as a U.S. Congressman.

Ironically, what has been Tancredo’s Achilles heel may actually be a boon in 2010. The Obama administration and the left in general have been so transparently dishonest about immigration that even Hispanics are starting to question the motives behind framing illegal immigration as a racial issue. It may not be a great idea to tell Hispanics who are playing by the rules to essentially step to the back of the citizenship line since we have tons of people breaking the law who are more deserving. And why are they more deserving?  My guess is that they represent a gigantic and uneducated voting bloc that is less likely to starve the oxygen that feeds the fire of today’s Democratic Party: dependency and grievance mongering. Ignorance is the political elixir that keeps progressive/leftist ideology from completely falling out of favor in America.

Like me, a lot of people are exhausted by the constant racially-divisive demagoguery. Look around you; it’s 50 years after Jim Crow! Can we please move on and judge people by the content of their character, rather than this childish insistence on defining people by their ethnicity, sex or whatever the identity du jour might be? Progressives are wearing the ideological equivalent of plaid polyester as they, with dramatic irony, refuse to progress past 1972.

As usual, I digress, and will continue to digress in upcoming posts that officially endorse other candidates across our great land. Next time we’ll discuss the race in the 37th Congressional District in Los Angeles County where Star Parker is poised to help break the shackles of those toiling under the yoke of Uncle Sam’s Plantation…