I’m in favor of this becoming a trend among far right conservative politicians; we just might see a big attitude improvement: Tom Tancredo to Smoke Pot.

Tancredo, who supported the marijuana reform proposal but said he did not partake in drugs himself, made a bet in a promotional film advocating its passage that he would nonetheless smoke pot if it ended up becoming law. Since it passed, he told Fox News he will uphold his end of the bargain:

“Look, I made a bet with the producer of the film that if Amendment 64 passed ( I did not think it would) that I would smoke pot,” he said through his research and education institute, the Rocky Mountain Foundation. “I will therefore smoke pot under circumstances we both agree are legal under Colorado law. Hey, it’s better than having to do a stupid dance as (Denver) Mayor (Michael) Hancock must perform as a result of losing a bet on the Broncos beating the Ravens.”

We’ve been watching in horror since the beginning of the Obama administration as the right wing’s buried racism came bursting out to the surface, loud and proud. And now, one of the GOP’s candidates for President, Tom Tancredo, who’s long been associated with extreme right wing groups, has completely stopped even his token attempts to conceal his true agenda, and will give a speech to one of the most virulent racist organizations still operating in the United States: Former Congressman Tancredo to Address White Supremacists.

Tom Tancredo has no more secrets.

The former Republican congressman from Colorado, known for his biting anti-immigration rhetoric and campaign ads suggesting Latino immigrants are rapists and drug dealers, is scheduled to be the luncheon speaker at next month’s annual conference for the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). The theme of the conference? “Multiculturalism – the Death of America.”

Sharing the dais with Tancredo will be a rogue’s gallery of the racist right, including James Edwards, who hosts the white nationalist Political Cesspool radio show; Don Black, the former Klansman best known for creating Stormfront.org, the first major Internet hate site; and Leonard Wilson, a longtime segregationist and Alabama commander for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate group that, like Tancredo, staunchly opposes immigration.

For those who have watched Tancredo go through endless contortions to distance himself from his racist friends, speaking at a CCC conference seems to be a turning point. The time has passed to apologize for the company he keeps.

(h/t: Thanos.)

Tancredo’s PAC now says he’s not going to speak, despite being advertised in the CCC newsletter.

Sometimes there’s nothing you can say but, “Wow.”

Here’s Tom Tancredo with an incredibly over-the-top anti-Muslim fear-mongering piece, attacking Rick Perry in Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller: Governor Perry’s Muslim blind spot.

Complete with quotes and links to hate group leaders Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller.

Islam scholar Robert Spencer, head of Jihad Watch, examined the program and concluded, “The curriculum is a complete whitewash and it’s got the endorsement of Perry. It’s not going to give you any idea why people are waging jihad against the West — it’s only going to make you think that the real problem is ‘Islamophobia.’”

Perhaps Spencer exaggerates the curriculum’s bias? Examine it for yourself here.

Former Congressman and GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo showed up at a rally in Colorado for Senate candidate Ken Buck, and announced that the worst threat the United States has ever faced — worse than the Soviet Union and worse than Al Qaeda — is President Barack Obama.

Ken Buck immediately went into damage control mode:

Following the rally, Buck was quick to distance himself from Tancredo’s remarks.

“I don’t agree,” he said. “I think there are a lot of threats to the White House and I don’t think the man in the White House is the greatest threat to this country at all. I am concerned about the direction of the country, but — I love Tom, but I don’t always agree with him.”

But of course, they can’t possibly have been surprised. Everyone knows what to expect if you book Tancredo as a speaker.

(Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)

Oops.

A national anti-illegal-immigration group has pulled out of a planned June 5 rally in Phoenix to support Arizona’s immigration law because of a key organizer’s alleged links to neo-Nazis.

The website for the “Phoenix Rising” Arizona Rally and Freedom March event scheduled for Wesley Bolin Plaza lists as “confirmed” speakers former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, state Sen. and Senate Bill 1070 sponsor Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, and GOP Senate challenger J.D. Hayworth, although a spokesman said Hayworth won’t be participating.

Even one of the farthest right nativist Republicans in America thinks Arizona may have gone a little too far.

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), who crusaded for tough anti-immigration measures while in Congress, told KDVR-TV that while he supported the new immigration law in Arizona he thought it went too far.

Said Tancredo: “I do not want people here, there in Arizona, pulled over because you look like should be pulled over.”

UPDATE at 4/26/10 6:23:02 pm:

Tom Tancredo wants you to know that Arizona’s new law does not go too far. He was misquoted, he says:

a political blog misquoted my statement to a TV station on the new Arizona law.I did NOt say the AZ law “goes too far.” I support it fully.

At a tea party in South Carolina over the weekend, former GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said about President Obama: “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?”

Absolutely unbelievable. This kind of unabashedly racist rhetoric has become completely open on the right wing: “Send ‘em back to Africa!”

Also at this rally: Dan Gonzalez of the whacked out Constitution Party, who declared that the Obama administration is “the end of America right here,” predicted fighting in the streets, and said that the GOP is owned by the Rockefellers. (Hmm, that sounds familiar.)

And what would a reactionary right wing rally be without some gratuitous gay-bashing?

I’m a tolerant person. I don’t care about your private life, Lindsey, but as our U.S. Senator I need to figure out why you’re trying to sell out your own countrymen, and I need to make sure you being gay isn’t it.

Nativist former Rep. Tom Tancredo is bashing Sarah Palin — he says she only wants to sell books.

Which is odd, because Tancredo’s in favor of reinstating literacy tests, so you’d think he’d be in favor of books.

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) ripped into fellow Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin in a recent interview, saying she’s not “presidential” and accusing her of simply trying to sell books.

In an interview published yesterday (via GOP 12) Tancredo said he can’t see Palin as commander in chief.

“I really don’t have this feeling about her as being presidential,” he said. “I don’t know what it is exactly. I don’t know if the issues really are that difficult for her or not.”

Tancredo said Palin doesn’t seem to be attempting to improve as a candidate and suggested that her goal seems to be to “make a lot of money and stay in the mix.”

Amazingly, Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) manages to write a puff piece for the Wall Street Journal about the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville without even mentioning Tom Tancredo’s racist call to bring back literacy tests or Joseph Farah’s Birther/theocrat speech and resulting standing ovation.

How is it possible to be that blind to the huge elephant of bad craziness in the room? Like this: Glenn Harlan Reynolds: What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention.

This is why the extremists have had such an easy time taking over the tea party movement — people like Glenn Reynolds are determined to pretend they don’t even exist.

On “The View” today, Meghan McCain called out Tom Tancredo for his shocking dog whistle racism speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

McCain: Congressman Tancredo went on TV and he was the first opening speaker and he said, ‘People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.’ And then he went on to say that people at the convention should have to pass literacy tests in order to be able to vote in this country, which is the same thing that happened in the 50’s to prevent African Americans from voting. It’s innate racism and I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement. And I’m sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English.