What Happens When even Tea party Candidates aren’t Conservative enough?
Both Conservative candidates are full bull goose wingnuts, Tancredo is from the Tanton Nativist school, and Maes is of the opinion that the UN is going to take over the bikepaths or something…
“Commitment to a party has not necessarily been my strong suit,” Tancredo said. “I’m much more committed to a philosophy — conservatism.”
Tancredo said he support Republican Scott McInnis when he wrote that letter last December, not knowing a plagiarism scandal would make McInnis “unelectable” just before the Republican primary.
Tancredo said he could never support Maes, who won the primary against McInnis, and therefore can’t support the Republican ticket.
“Circumstances changed,” Tancredo said. “They haven’t for a lot of you because you still have faith in your candidate. I don’t. Never have.”
Immigration emerged as the other main theme of the meeting. Tancredo’s stance on immigration is ultra-conservative, and he criticized Maes for once supporting amnesty, something he said Maes denies.
Maes has said recently that he does not support amnesty. Schneider told Tancredo that Maes is for Arizona’s immigration law and also for E-Verify, an Internet-based system that allows businesses to check the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.
Tancredo said immigration isn’t the only issue he feels strongly about, but that it’s part of the problem within many other issues such as health care and education.
“This issue crosses party lines,” Tancredo said. “I will attract some votes that way.”
Schneider disagrees that Tancredo can run a campaign that does anything other than ruin Maes’ chance at winning.