Tom Tancredo understands how to play into the paranoid fantasies of the tea baggers. During his opening night speech, Tancredo said:
Every year, the liberal Dems and the RINO Republicans turned up the temperature ever so slightly. It seemed after awhile that we’d all be boiled to death in a cauldron of the nanny state.
And then something really odd happened — mostly because we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country.
[Applause]
People who cannot even spell the word “vote,” or say it in English — [applause] — put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. Name is Barack Hussein Obama.
Yes, to Tancredo all you need to do is to stop the blacks and foreigners from voting.
Tancredo isn’t the only one who thinks Obama is a Marxist. ABC News also notes that “The convention plans to feature a lecture called, ‘Correlations Between the Current Administration and Marxist dictators in Latin America.'” Not that we should, but if we were ever to keep people from voting due to ignorance, those who know so little about political and economic viewpoints that they believe Obama is a Marxist should be the first to be excluded.
Tancredo also attacked John McCain for not beingĀ far right enough and suggested that don’t share their view of how America should be ought to leave:
Some things we can deal with in just a political way — which is, you know, by the votes we cast. Other things will require a commitment to passing on our culture — and we really do have one, you know, it is based on Judeo-Christian principles whether people like it or they don’t!
[Applause]
That’s who we are! That is who we are! And if you don’t like it, don’t come here! And if you’re here and you don’t like it, go home! Go someplace else!
Crooks and Liars has the full video, but if you can get a copy it sounds much better in the original German.