Tancredo planning to challenge Salazar in 2010?

[Adlai Stevenson]

As M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News reports:

    The first head-to-head debate in Colorado's 2010 U.S. Senate race will have to wait.

    For a time on Friday, it looked as if Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Denver, and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton, were destined to square off on a nationally-televised, Sunday morning talk show.

    But alas, Salazar will be on CBS News' "Face the Nation" broadcast and Tancredo will not.

    Before the joint appearance fell through, the thought of a head-to-head appearance made Tancredo and his staff enthusiastic to say the least.

    "He thinks it's a great match-up," Tancredo spokesman Carlos Espinosa said. "I think it's interesting how these two, I'd say they are the bookends for the immigration issue. You've got Tom on one end and the Senator on the other. This is a good match-up for a race we may see in the future... This may be the first of many debates for a potential match-up down the road."

    Yes, Tancredo currently is making a long-shot run for president. But there's at least a slim chance he won't win. A future run for the U.S. Senate appears to be his back-up plan. Espinosa describes a Tancredo-Salazar contest as the congressman's dream match-up...

    ...Salazar spokesman Cody Wertz had no comment on Tancredo or a potential 2010 match-up. Pollster Floyd Ciruli said Tancredo would be "the candidate Salazar would most look forward to running against," since Tancredo is so polarizing.

If the election were today, Tancredo would probably get his brains kicked in by Salazar in a matchup for U.S. Senate. But if he does well enough in his bid for President and significantly raises his profile, who knows?

http://www.coloradopols.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=0F318CB280B0C8F4EEF56F138595B623?diaryId=3407

[Verily]

I hope he humiliates himself.

[Sam Spade]

Good.  Hopefully someone sane will replace him in that CD.

[Tender Branson]

Run ... and go down !

[DownWithTheLeft]

Haha, Tancredo running against a Hispanic

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ah, so you admit he's racist?

Of course, Salazar is just as white as I am (pure-blooded Spaniard).

Anyway good, this will be fun to watch.

[SPC]

How can Tancredo challenge Salazar if he's president? ( )

Definite win for Salazar.

[MaC]

Hopefully a failed Presidential run would help a senate run.  Go Tom!

[DownWithTheLeft]

How can Tancredo challenge Salazar if he's president? ( )

Definite win for Salazar.

I think it depends on national atmosphere and if it's 94' like Tancredo wins easily

[Smash255]

How can Tancredo challenge Salazar if he's president? ( )

Definite win for Salazar.

I think it depends on national atmosphere and if it's 94' like Tancredo wins easily

he doesn't have a chance even in a 94 type year

[MaC]

How can Tancredo challenge Salazar if he's president? ( )

Definite win for Salazar.

I think it depends on national atmosphere and if it's 94' like Tancredo wins easily

he doesn't have a chance even in a 94 type year

Regardless of the fact that political 'years' like '94 and '06 are the exception and not the rule.  Pretty sure Dems will still have the House next cycle.

[Rawlings]

Tancredo is feeling himself get swept out of the limelight and he's trying to make a last ditch effort to get back in.  Too late.  Tom's not running and certainly Tom's not winning.

So far CO GOP rumblings have it that John Elway will be challenging Ritter in 2010 for governor and either Beauprez, McInnis, Owens, any number of surging GOP legislators, or a few other folks will be challening Salazar. 

Tancredo will simply meet a wall should he try to run.

Salazar is a strong candidate--much stronger than Udall--and the GOP will need its best stuff to beat him.

[Rococo4]

Tancredo is feeling himself get swept out of the limelight and he's trying to make a last ditch effort to get back in.  Too late.  Tom's not running and certainly Tom's not winning.

So far CO GOP rumblings have it that John Elway will be challenging Ritter in 2010 for governor and either Beauprez, McInnis, Owens, any number of surging GOP legislators, or a few other folks will be challening Salazar. 

Tancredo will simply meet a wall should he try to run.

Salazar is a strong candidate--much stronger than Udall--and the GOP will need its best stuff to beat him.

Unfourtanetly, Salazar will be a strong candidate by the time he is up again.  He wasnt in 2004, but Republicans unwisely went with Pete Coors who ran a dreadful campaign on top of being a dreadful candidate.