Just so I can't be accused of only mentioning Ron Paul among the various presidential candidates, here's Tom Tancredo with a sure-fire, vote-winning idea:
The "crazy people in room doing crazy things" article is a hackneyed one, sure, and I already linked a classic of the genre yesterday, but this Orange County Weekly write-up of a Tom Tancredo rally at the Nixon Library contains some high-grade kookery.
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Tancredo closes out the emotional night by reminding the audience that hunting down all illegal immigrants, sending them home, and building a 2,000-mile wall between us and Mexico is our calling, much like a previous generation "saved the world" during World War II. "Next, we build a wall along the Canadian border," he proposes to thunderous applause.
Wow. I thought he was making a gaffe when he originally proposed that in the pages of Marie Claire. He wasn't.
Of course, that idea would only win a lot of votes among Canadians.
Posted by Nicholas at June 27, 2007 11:06 AMI've heard it said before that building a wall along the Canadian border is consistent if one is truly concerned with border security rather than with keeping people out.Yes, and it might even make sense from a Canadian POV as well. I'm often amazed in many US commentators' belief that it's the duty of Canadian border guards to keep "undesireables" from entering the United States. Your INS folks don't check outgoing traffic coming north, and our guys don't check the traffic going south. Each side is reponsible for checking the _incoming_ traffic. Posted by: Nicholas at June 27, 2007 01:58 PM
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