October 15, 2010 08:08 PM UTC

Stay Classy, Tom Tancredo

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• by: Colorado Pols

We keep telling Republicans flocking to the standard of American Constitutional Party candidate Tom Tancredo that they are going to dearly regret it, but they’re evidently too busy running away from Dan Maes to care. Meanwhile, the Pueblo Chieftain’s Patrick Malone reports:

Speaking to a crowd of about 500 at the Denver Sheraton Downtown during the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry debate, Tancredo said the audience generally blames him when its meal arrives cold or late.

“When we came in, we lost half the waitstaff and the kitchen staff,” Tancredo said.

He was alluding to his reputation as a hardliner on illegal immigration and seizing on the generalization that illegal immigrants tend to hold jobs as cooks and waiters or waitresses. The audience greeted the joke with a chorus of groans…

Ah yes, the groans. Tancredo is no stranger to them. Business owners in the audience groan–but also the fastest-growing bloc of voters in America (Latinos), people who think ethno-economic stereotypes are gross on general principles, and most other well-adjusted people. Tancredo is a walking, talking embarrassment, and a very small part of us (not, obviously, the part concerned with Colorado’s reputation or future) would kind of enjoy blogging his absurdities, and the generations he would set back relations between Latinos and the GOP, for a few official years.

Fortunately for everybody, he’s doing a great job reminding people why that’s not going to happen.