The ravings of “Tito el constructor”

Sometime over the past few weeks the U.S. presidential election has jumped the shark. It wasn’t this. Or this. Last night it was nearly this.

No, fair readers. This was the moment:

Sarah Palin brought a guest along to her rally (on Monday), but it wasn’t a country star or a television personality. However, he is known by his first name: Tito the Builder.

Tito Munoz, who owns a construction company in Virginia, has been part of Palin’s stump speech for about a week since the McCain campaign discovered him three days before that at a rally for the top of the ticket in Woodbridge, Virginia. The Colombian-born Munoz who is now an American citizen defended Joe the Plumber to a few reporters and took them to task for looking in to the background of Joe Wurzelbacher.

That Munoz has become the de facto Latino representative of the McCain/Palin campaign isn’t the problem. (Heck, his presence shows that the Latino electorate represents different viewpoints and isn’t monolithic). It’s his rants against the media, misinterpretation of the First Amendment, and comparisons between Obama and Hugo Chavez that put him over the top:

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Tuesday cannot come soon enough.
Sources- The Latin Americanist, Time, BBC News, Fox News, YouTube