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Tom Tancredo, whom I once thought was a decent politician, is now suggesting that he's got a bizarre double-standard (Hat tip: Hot Air):

Admitting that it may be “political suicide” former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo said its time to consider legalizing drugs.

He spoke Wednesday to the Lincoln Club of Colorado, a Republican group that’s been active in the state for 90 years. It’s the first time Tancredo has spoken on the drug issue. He ran for president in 2008 on an anti-illegal immigration platform that has brought him passionate support and criticism.

Tancredo noted that he has never used drugs, but said the war has failed.

“I am convinced that what we are doing is not working,” he said.

Tancredo told the group that the country has spent billions of dollars capturing, prosecuting and jailing drug dealers and users, but has little to show for it.

“It is now easier for a kid to get drugs at most schools in America that it is booze,” he said.

He said the violent drug battles in Mexico are moving north. A recent ABC News report profiled how easy it has become for violent drug cartels to smuggle cocaine into the United States. Drug enforcement officials told ABC that Denver is a hub city for distribution.

And did it ever occur to him that legalizing drugs would actually be quite an award for those violent thugs? I'm disappointed in him. In fact, I vaguely recall that a Denver paper may have reported that he wouldn't support a resolution on the Armenian Holocaust. Was this true? Because if so, I think that was very stupid too. Getting back on the drug subject, does he really think that's going to reduce the number of scum selling with a license or any kind of a legal permit? Nope, because then, there'll still be some scum who will try to sell these things cheaper and without even a prescription. In fact, one of the commentors on Hot Air said something like that too.

Oh well. Some politicians can sure be strange people.

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