Lost in the shuffle of Wednesday's dual announcements that Rudy Giuliani and John McCain are skipping the August straw poll in Ames: Tom Tancredo is also making some campaign changes. The Rocky Mountain News reports:
Rep. Tom Tancredo plans to change direction in his long-shot presidential campaign so he can pressure fellow Republicans into rejecting an immigration reform plan he considers 'amnesty.'
Tancredo will follow through with the Iowa trip that starts today, but then plans to move his campaigning to Republican-held congressional districts around the country. The message: help block the immigration reform bill now pending in the U.S. Senate, or risk primary defeat. One name that came up in Tuesday's debate: Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.
Also lost in the shuffle was Tancredo's statement late in the debate calling for an end to all legal immigration until existing populations can be assimilated "until we don't have to press 1 for English."
UPDATE: Iowa Voice has the view from the right:
I like Tancredo, I really do. I think he owns the illegal immigration issue and I’ve said as much many times. But is he Presidential material? Probably not...
On the other hand, if he stays in the race, he guarantees that this is something that keeps getting talked about.
One more note from the GOP debate: Chris Dodd's folks had so much fun with the Talk Clock after Sunday's Democratic debate that they issued a GOP version. The winner: Wolf Blitzer.
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