Spanish debate "has no place" in campaign

So says Tom Tancredo, who is boycotting the Univision debate though, we suspect, nobody will notice. While Mitt Romney is touting a new Spanish language radio ad in Miami and  more Miami-Dade supporters, Tancredo released this statement: “It is the law that to become a naturalized citizen of this country you must have knowledge and understanding of English, including a basic ability to read, write, and speak the language,” Tancredo said. “So what may I ask are our presidential candidates doing participating in a Spanish speaking debate? Pandering comes to mind...America has been a melting pot of people from all over the world but it can not survive as a nation if our immigrants do not assimilate. A common language is essential to that goal. Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual but it has perilous consequences for a nation. As such, a Spanish debate has no place in a presidential campaign.”

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We should have our own language by now. We haven't been Brittish for quite some time now.

Romney is turning into an embarassment. He is trying everything under the sun and he can't break 12 percent.

Miami has its own language.

The Kossacks have their own language too. It sounds like English but if you listen closely, it's gibberish.

and here in the south inbreeding has created a language understood only by those who are married to their sister or cuzzin.

Tancredo is dead-nuts-on with this. I applaud his courage to say what these pandering, puppet-head morons won’t.

Tancredo can afford to say anything he wants: he doesn't have the ghost of a chance to win anyway.

Tancredo is Spanish for idiot.

[Maria]

He is a bigot. No one cares what he thinks.

I care what he thinks because he's right. Learn the language or get the h*ll out! You people are sucking up all our tax dollars in social services, while corporations make a mint off you slave labor.

Who's the idiot?

Neither does Tom Trancedo

[Proud CFR member]

Tom Tancredo is a joke. I thought he was going to drop out unless the Rockies won the World Series. I don't think he polls at 1%, therefore, he shouldn't be allowed to participate in anymore debates.

bigotry from a repiglican??!!

shocked, i tell u, shocked!!!!

anybody heard the leading piglican speak recently...the chimp, that is!!!!

thats not english, is it??

of course, this "issue" would be totally nothing were the "illegal immigrants" white-skinned, wouldn't it?

how come these maroons are focusing on the "hispanic [brown]" folks?

dont they think there are illegal irish, polish, chinese, pillipino, indian, etc., etc., etc. in the
u s of a?

btw, considering mitts recent comment about hearing somone on your neighbors property speaking funny...

were my cousins from switzerland to visit, and mitt were to hear us conversing in swiss or german, would that low-life s.o.b call ICE??

i grew up in during the midst of the cold war where we were taught that the dirty commies spied on everyone, even children on their parents.

does that bag of crap think a neighbor should turn in a neighbor?

what a load of creeping totalitarianism!!!!

10:25... put simply; you're an idiot.

Not a problem. The voters will boycott Tancredo.

telling the truth is truly hurtful to those who believe in lies,12.14!!

big mittster and his fellow-fascist want to be watching ALL OF US!!