In a recent email to Team America PAC supporters Angela "Bay" Buchanan, former Treasurer of the United States under Ronald Reagan and sister of xenophobic demagogue Pat Buchanan, is calling on defenders of liberty for everyone with proper documents to send money for Lou Barletta's campaign against Democratic incumbent Congressman Paul Kanjorski in Pennsylvania's 11th district. Barletta is a hero to the "America Uber Alles and everyone else keep out" crowd who want to put an Iron Curtain on the Mexican border, and many see him as the ideological successor to retiring Congressman Tom Tancredo.
Bay Buchanan is whining about Barletta losing his front-runner status the past few weeks. "With the economy in the tank," she says, "Lou and many of other terrific candidates are being blamed for the policies of George W. Bush and Harry Reid--and their numbers are slipping. Just last month Lou was up nine percent, but the race has tightened." It seems the Archie Bunker Democrats who dominate the district are beginning to think about their credit cards and checkbooks rather than their prejudices.