The GOP’s Border Guard
George F. Will takes an interesting look at illegal immigration, border security and
how Tom Tancredo is trying to do something about it all, in
his column in the Washington Post today.
Tancredo says, “I’m too fat, too short and too bald” to be president. Actually,
at 5 feet 8 inches “in my cowboy boots” and 177 pounds, he would have towered over
President Madison, is 150 pounds lighter than President Taft was and has much more
hair than did President Eisenhower. Still, Tancredo knows he is not going to be president
and hopes “some tall guy with good hair” will make illegal immigration a big issue
in 2008.>
But he believes he will have to, and he recently has been to, among other places,
Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. He is consulting with Bay Buchanan, who, as
Pat Buchanan’s sister, knows something about mounting intraparty insurgencies. She
expects he will run and hopes she will be Sancho Panza to his Don Quixote.