With a reelection race looming on the horizon, you'd think an incumbent Senator would be careful about unnecessarily offending one of his state's largest ethnic groups. Guess not:

Specter let loose with a stream of Polish jokes. The Post said he recounted the old one about a person who tells another person that he knows a good Polish joke. The man responds, "Hey careful, I'm Polish!" Specter delivered the punchline: "That's OK, I'll tell it more slowly."

I'm not big on political correctness, myself, but a whole lot of folks make their voting decisions on items of even less consequence than a politician's fondness for ethnic jokes.

Not that Pennsylvanians don't already have PLENTY of reasons to vote against Arlen Specter in 2010.