Apparently being second-looniest is not good enough.

[theweaselking]

Competing with Ron Paul for the "craziest, most asinine, most unrelated-to-real-life Presidential campaign promise" award, we have Tom Tancredo, who says:

According to FBI reports, Al-Qaeda may be planning to strike at shopping malls here in America later this year, and the candidates for president are talking about health care and energy policy?

I'm Tom Tancredo and I say all issues pale in comparison to the fact that Islamic Jihadists are here and plotting our destruction. It's time for real leadership in Washington, I will secure our borders and ports, I will stop all visa's to nations that sponsor Terrorism and arrest and deport any alien who preaches violence and hatred whether that's in coming from a Mosque or a street corner in a Mayday parade.

I'll prosecute those who provide sanctuary to anyone who would harm us, deport all those who do not belong here, and put the military on the border if necessary, to keep them from coming back.

Leadership is about more than taking action after an attack, it's about doing everything in your power to stop it, and I mean everything.

This is Tom Tancredo and I approved this ad because someone has to say it.

It gets worse if you hit the TV ones.

Comments

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Okay now crazy man. Please collect your pills from the nurse and remember to swallow. The nice orderly will check and then take you back to the rubber room for yours and our safety.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

To be fair, he is just preaching the crazier half of Bush's platform. Considering where money and political precedent is, the platform is reasonable in a pragmatic "anything to get elected" kind of way.

[mightycodking.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZBjXr5CWUI

[chaosrah.livejournal.com]

right after you posted this someone posted on wtf_inc about this

http://community.livejournal.com/wtf_inc/4916545.html

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

This is the same man who thought nuking Mecca would send a strong message to the moslem world not to fuck with the USA (admittedly, in the case of a nuclear strike by al-Qaeda), and that soldiers should be smearing pig's blood on their bullets so that the moslems they were shooting wouldn't get into heaven.

More quotes here: http://www.quotesandpoem.com/quotes/listquotes/author/tom-tancredo/0

[vagabond27.livejournal.com]

I'm from Colorado, and everyone here I talk to agrees. He is our biggest embarrassment.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Damn health care for children or the strengthening of the dollar! Will no one think of protecting the Mall of America?

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

How many Americans died from acts of terrorism in the past 10 years? How many died from inadequate health care? THAT'S why they're talking about health care, you jackass. Fuck.

Sorry. Assholes like that just really piss me off.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because telling consumers that the boogeyman will come to get them if they go out shopping is *absolutely* a reasonable way to get to where the money is, and will not cut into the donations you get *at all*.

It's not pragmatic. It's ridiculous. It is reasonable only in the sense that if you completely ignore the context in which you're trying to implement it, you might be able to delude yourself into thinking it works, and *that is not reasonable.*

[frith]

Al-Qaeda is set to ruin Christmas! They're at the mall now, buying up all the Kick-Me Elmo dolls! Oh, what will we _do_?

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

Aside from any other stupidity, that sounds like a fantastic way to *really* jam your rifle and cause some serious self-destruction.