“Tom Tancredo” on The Daily Caller

Senator Marco Rubio is planning to introduce a Republican version of the DREAM Act, a bill that grants legal status to young illegal immigrants. While the DREAM Act has received some support from RINOs like Lindsey Graham and Richard Lugar in the past, Republicans have largely opposed it. When the lame-duck Democrats tried to pass it in December 2010, only three Republican senators and eight Republican representatives went along. (more)

In Tom Wolfe’s bestselling novel “Bonfire of the Vanities,” a liberal New York prosecutor who yearned for a “Great White Defendant” got his wish when a wealthy stockbroker named Sherman McCoy ran over a black teenager in a case of questionable self-defense. The prosecutor, left-wing racial activists and a sensationalist media fed off each other, leading to a state of pure hysteria where the facts were all swept aside. (more)

MSNBC’s decision to dismiss Pat Buchanan shows the depths to which the mainstream media has caved to far-left pressure groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Council of La Raza, Color of Change and Media Matters. (more)

Now that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination, the liberal media is trying to paint him as a right-wing extremist. Last week, The New York Times editorial page used the occasion of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s endorsement of Governor Romney to charge that he has “lurched toward the extremist right.” (more)

Former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo blasted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday, saying “he is finished,” in a sign the GOP’s immigration hawks may soon flock to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (more)

In the wake of the killing of al Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, pundits, politicians, and law professors are arguing over whether it’s constitutional for the American government to target an American citizen. Some, such as Ron Paul, have gone as far as calling the killing a potentially impeachable offense. (more)

At last week’s presidential debate in Florida, Rick Perry said something that made the audience gasp in disbelief. He said critics of in-state college tuition for illegal aliens “have no heart.” Welcome to Compassionate Conservatism 2.0. (more)

Rep. Brian Bilbray, California Republican, is one of the most outspoken in Congress on immigration matters. (more)

Look closely at the recently-elected 112th Congress. Notice all those bright new faces of “color”? Guess what, most of those faces are Republican. The GOP fielded a large number of ethnic candidates, and, to the surprise of some, a large number won. The new Republican crop includes five Hispanic freshmen, including one woman, Jaime Herrera, who won an open seat in, of all places, Washington. And the two Hispanic Republican candidates in Texas won by defeating Democratic incumbents. (more)

While Republicans celebrate their historic gains in state legislatures, governors’ mansions and in the U.S. House of Representatives, we should also pause to ask why the GOP came up short in many races.  After all, leading up to Tuesday the GOP had one of the largest enthusiasm gaps in recent memory, according to Gallup.  If Republicans want to improve their game, the party needs to ask where — and why — it did not fully capitalize on voter enthusiasm and make greater gains this cycle. (more)

DENVER (AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has offered a last-minute endorsement to former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo in the Colorado governor’s race. (more)

The chairman of the Tea Party Express is calling on Republican Dan Maes to drop out of the Colorado gubernatorial race and back former GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo. (more)

Would-be governor Tom Tancredo and his surrogates have run a full-court press on GOP rival Dan Maes in recent weeks, snaking supporters out from under the struggling candidate and upping pressure for Maes to exit the three-way race. (more)

In Colorado, a bizarre three-way race for governor has given liberal Denver mayor John Hickenlooper an unlikely lead over Republican Dan Maes and third-party candidate Tom Tancredo, even in an unfriendly political environment. (more)

To say Tom Tancredo stirred things up in Colorado by entering the governor’s race would be an understatement. The former congressman and one-time presidential candidate decided to run on the American Constitution Party ticket, in protest to the Republican nominee, Dan Maes. (more)

Republican Dan Maes, facing calls to drop out of the Colorado gubernatorial race as Tom Tancredo’s third-party campaign surges, has reportedly rejected money in exchange for taking his name off the ballot. (more)

Will Dan Maes hurt Republican chances for taking back the White House in 2012? (more)

Is independent Tom Tancredo now becoming the de facto Republican candidate for governor of Colorado? He’s now moved to within four points of Democrat John Hickenlooper to turn the race into a toss-up. (more)

The Colorado governor’s race is increasingly looking like a contest between Democrat John Hickenlooper and independent Tom Tancredo. (more)

If GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes doesn’t pull 10 percent of the vote in this year’s elections, Republicans will become a minor party. (more)