Tom Tancredo Hates The Pope

Our favorite former presidential hopeful (after Bill Richardson, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson and Tommy Thompson), Tom Tancredo has come out saying he thinks the Papa is full of caca after recent remarks he made about embracing immigrants and stroking them lovingly while gazing into their eyes and calling them “booboo.” Because, as everyone knows, Tom Tancredo hates immigrants. Unless they’re fried and covered with a rich, brown gravy flavored with the tears of Mexican baby orphans:

The Catholic leader, while in Washington today, said: “I want to encourage you and your communities to continue to welcome the immigrants who join your ranks today, to share their joys and hopes, to support them in their sorrows and trials and to help them flourish in their new home.”

Tancredo cited a March 1 editorial in the Wall Street Journal that said the Catholic Church “has been losing members rapidly — as much as a third of the native-born Catholic population. Meanwhile, it has gained members among foreign-born (mostly Latino) residents.”

The Journal editorial added: “We’d encourage our friends on the right who want to limit immigration to consider the health of our churches.”

“I suspect the pope’s immigration comments may have less to do with spreading the gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the church,” Tancredo said. “This isn’t preaching; it is faith-based marketing.”

Um. What do you think a religion is, Tom? Here on Earth, people need money to help pay for things like electric bills, cassock dry-cleaning, communion wafers and Netflix accounts. The Pope might be creepy and, sure, maybe he has a past as a Hilter Youth but, come on. -Who among us hasn’t- He ain’t no fool.

Tancredo slams pope on immigration [Denver Post]