Tom Tancredo: the craziest conservative yet?

We all know that there have been many far-right crazy conservatives in the past decades, but as Rep. Tom Tancredo continues to come to fame in the 2008 Election, and his views get revealed, he could prove to be the wackiest yet.

First of all, if we didn't know that Tancredo was anti-hispanic immigration, then maybe his statement a few years back should be brought up. Tancredo referred to the city of Miami as "a third world country". He has compared Miami to Havana, Cuba on numerous occasions as well, saying, "I knew speaking your mind could be dangerous in Havana — I guess it's equally dangerous to do so in Miami. Apparently, there isn't much of a difference between the two anymore." So I can respect someone if there opposed to illegal immigration, there are actual reasons to be opposed, butto be opposed to Miami, Florida? For what? The only clear explanation is that Tancredo sees Miami a hispanic-immigrant city, which it partially is, but isn't that a good thing. Cultural diversity is what makes the United States, a country of immigrants I might add, so great.

Then there is what Tancredo would call his foreign policy. He introduced it at a Town Hall Meeting in Iowa last month. Tom Tancredo said that to deter the threat of terrorist attacks on the United States, that we should threaten to bomb the two holiest cities in Islam, Mecca and Medina. And that if there was ever another attack on the U.S., we should go ahead and destroy the two cities. What an absurd, ignorant statement to make. Even the State Department called him out on this issue. I'm all for deterring terrorists, but to bomb Islam's holiest cities? Mecca and Medina are important to the Islam religion, destroying them would anger millions of good-willed Muslims who currently want no to harm to the U.S. If anything it would spark an outrage in the Middle East and then every Muslim would be out to destroy the U.S.

Rep. Tancredo. here's an idea: lets go after al-Qaeda where they are planning attacks, instead of playing world police in Iraq. Maybe if we target the terrorists in Afghanistan and work with Musharraf, we could capture and kill bin-Laden. Thats the way to protect the United States.