Why not have a literacy test for voting?
Tom Tancredo, former congressman and presidential candidate, is now a charter member of the “how dare he?!” Club. My stars, could it have been something he said? Indeed it was. The hang ‘em high posse of the knee-jerk liberal wing of the American body politic has charged, tried and convicted Tancredo for using the dreaded “l” word. And the “l” word in this case is – OH THE HORROR! THE HORROR! – well, literacy. Remember when literacy was considered a good thing? Not these days. Tancredo had the bad judgment to use literacy with the word “test” behind it. He tacked on the word “civics” in front of it. To be more specific, Tancredo said this in a keynote address he delivered to the first National Tea Party Convention held recently in Nashville. “We do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote. People who could not even spell the word ‘vote’ or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,” Tancredo said. The “socialist ideologue” in question would
