<p>[Tancredo</a> may drop out tomorrow - First Read - msnbc.com](<a href=“http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/19/526463.aspx]Tancredo”>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/19/526463.aspx)</p>
<p>His role in future GOP debates will be assumed by an illegal alien willing to do the work at a fraction of the cost.</p>
<p>Does this push the immigration issue further down the food chain?</p>
<p>LOL, DG, at your assessment in the first post. But, no, immigration will not become less of a hot button issue among the Republicans. You’ve got McCain, who is mostly reasonable, Giuliani who was for it before he was against it, and I don’t know where Romney is but pick a position and he’ll get there eventually. Thompson probably hews to the GOP orthodoxy but he’s going to be one of the first to flame out. So maybe Huckabee…?</p>
<p>Tancredo’s endorsing Mitt Romney?</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>What’s a Tancredo?</p>
<p>He was receiving slim support in the polls for the GOP nomination, yet his prensence in the race was forcing the major candidates rightward on the immigration issue.</p>
<p>This issue was splitting the party. I beleive his withdrawal will take some heat off the issue.</p>