Tancredo told the audience that the country had elected “a committed socialist ideologue in the White House” because “we do not have a civics, literary test before people can vote in this country“:
The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and “the cult of multiculturalism,” asserting that Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”
The speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America “put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House … Barack Hussein Obama.”
I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with Jim Crowe era laws, but literacy tests were a tool used by authorities to prevent African-Americans from voting.
Tom Tancredo has been an anti-immigration demagouge for many years. I have no doubt he believes what he’s saying (because he’s nuts). Perhaps Rove, O’Reilly and Tancredo should have a talk because Rove and O’Reilly just told us the R2K/Daily Kos poll of Republicans just wasn’t true.
Sarah Palin is scheduled to give the keynote address at the convention tomorrow.