The Occasional Observer

CQ Lincoln sets out the argument that Tancredo has basically won. He was in the election to "forward the ball" on the issue he cares most about, and he has done that. He won't win and never thought he would. From the article:

The greatest irony of all is that it is precisely the ascendancy of the Tancredo’s tough enforcement credo that has denied him the “wedge issue” he needs to garner support in his presidential primary campaign. With Giuliani, Romney, and Thompson all sounding like Tom Tancredo on the issue of illegal immigration, Republican primary voters who agree with Tancredo on the issue see little need to back the unknown Colorado congressman as their standard bearer against Hillary Clinton. His proposals are now indisputably mainstream, much to the chagrin of the liberal media and the open-borders lobby. [my emphasis]

Maybe it's just me, but this piece reads like an epitaph for his campaign. Got the message, Tom? NR says you can fly the "Mission Accomplished" banner and clear the field.