Today’s Impromptus is the usual potpourri, covering everything from soup to nuts (heavy on the nuts). There’s an item I left out, however. I’d like to peddle it here. It belongs in the category of “If a Republican had done that . . .”

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is not a Republican. Oh, no. She is a California Democrat, and is running to replace Barbara Boxer in the Senate. A smooth one she is, too. On the campaign trail, wanting to distinguish between Indians from South Asia and Indians from the Americas, she did a little war whoop.

To read an article about this, go here.

At first she sloughed off her whooping, then she apologized, saying that in a “crazy and exciting rush of meetings” she did something “offensive.” She also claimed Indian ancestry. She and Elizabeth Warren would make quite a caucus in the Senate.

And you thought Ben Nighthorse Campbell was an Indian!

Look, people can whoop till the cows come home, as far as I’m concerned. It’s nothing to get all wee-weed up about, as our president would say. But if a Republican had done what Sanchez did? He would be tarred and feathered. (Can I say that?)

To get her House seat, Loretta Sanchez beat my man Robert Dornan — B-1 Bob — who was thought maybe a little uncouth. Hell, he’s Cary Grant compared with this whooper. And I’d vote for him right today.

(N.B. Sanchez’s victory over Bob was tainted with illegal votes.)

A final gibe on this sunny May morning: Given that she is vying to succeed Senator Boxer, Sanchez should be asked the question, “Would a member of the military be allowed to call you ‘ma’am’?”