On getting smart about politics...

According to this New York Daily News article ( http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/02/05/2010-02-05_tea_party_convention_starts_with_racially_incendiary_remark_literacy_tests_to_vo.html ) from Lucianne.com, former Rep. Tom Tancredo was the opening speaker for the first National Tea Party convention in Nashville.

Tancredo was just as scary to me during the preelection campaigning as B.O. . He's a rabblerouser who plays on the emotions of the voting public. A one trick pony, his strong suit was exploiting the widespread discontent over our immigration problems. On more than one blog (not of the tinfoil hat variety either) I was informed that all "real" Americans should support the man. Noted. I was in favor of Duncan Hunter so I guess I don't qualify in the "real" category even with 22 years of military service.



IMHO this is the sort of man we should be wary of when it comes time to replace the present Chief Executive. Our nation has already proven that it will elect the man holding the nuclear football on the same criteria used for choosing a prom queen. Yep, we can be just as stupid as any Third World country. Time to get smart.

We need to wake the Hell up and be careful about our "leaders". That goes for both sides of the aisle.