TANCREDO, FULL OF VENOM FOR IMMIGRANTS, QUITS THE RACE AND GIVES SUPPORT TO MITT ROMNEY

There's good news about Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. He has decided to quit trying to secure the Republican presidential nomination. Tancredo never had a chance. But at least we won't need to endure more racial and ethnic hatred spewing forth from his mouth.

Tancredo is throwing his support to Mitt Romney, another immigrant basher. Chris Cillizza blogs for The Washington Post:

"Tancredo's biggest impact on the field came as he bowed out of a contest that he never had any real chance of winning. Tancredo had made tough stand on immigration the centerpiece and organizing principle of his campaign, and his endorsement of Romney could prove a powerful validator of the former governor's bona fides on the issue."

Tancredo had but one issue - animus towards foreign-speaking immigrants of any sort. He would send them all back in the interests of maintaining a pure and anglicized culture in the U.S.

Tancredo seems to have forgotten the origins of his last name. His parents or grandparents were no doubt immigrants from Italy. As a kid, he surely must have felt sting from the anti-Italian sentiments among the Irish and the Wasps and all the others. I wonder if he ever heard other kids call Italians racial or ethnic slur names.

You would think, given his background, Tancredo, of all people, would be the most sympathetic to the ordeals and hardships faced by immigrants, especially Spanish-speaking Mexicans, when they try to make a living for their families here in the U.S. After all, his Italian forebears had to put up with the same antipathies, maybe even worse, now confronting Latinos and other non-English speaking immigrants arriving in America.

Fortunately, most Americans remember their immigrant roots and are more tolerant and sympathetic to the new arrivals than a Tom Tancredo or a Lou Dobbs. Because we are losing a voice exacerbating racial and ethnic conflict, I am happy Tancredo has dropped out.