John McCain will have to put on his dancing shoes when he has to explain to Hispanic voters how he can run on the same party line as a nativist boob who would make David Duke look like Jesse Jackson.
Lou Barletta, Mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania announced his campaign for the GOP nomination for the congressional seat held by Democrat Paul Kanjorski.
Hazleton, an economically depressed blue collar town located in upstate Pennsylvania, has a large immigrant population which provokes a backlash from frustrated Neanderthals who need scapegoats for their own economic misfortune.
Two years ago, under Barletta's leadership, the City Council approved the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, which denies business permits to companies that employ illegal immigrants, fines landlords who rent to them and requires tenants to register and pay for a rental permit.
So much for GOP claims to be the party of free markets and free labor. It looks like McCain will spend as much time during the general election disavowing his fellow Republicans as he will attacking the Democrats.