Skeptic Project

Tom Tancredo. The man. The myth. The nativist.

Yesterday, the former Republican congressman and 2008 presidential candidate upended the Colorado gubernatorial race by backing up his threat to run as a third-party candidate if the two leading Republican candidates didn't vow to drop out.

Tancredo will run under the banner of the Constitution Party, a religiously conservative, right-wing group that has had little electoral success to boast of since its founding in 1992. But Tancredo's career hasn't really been about religion. Instead, his focus has been on immigration and border issues. And by focus, we mean extremist obsession.

Tancredo's presence on the ballot in the general election could siphon votes away from the eventual Republican gubernatorial nominee in Colorado. But it's also likely to draw more attention to his personal brand of acute immigrant-phobia and border hysteria -- a scary political philosophy that will now be given the platform of a gubernatorial campaign.

TPM went back and dredged up some of Tancredo's most noxious statements.

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