UPDATE: So, the raving lunatics at Daily Kos are, predictably, attacking Joe the Plumber. So much for being on the side of “working class families”.
It seems to trouble these nitwits that Joe is actually his middle name. It’s as if they think someone whose legal name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who chooses to go by “Joe”, must be somehow deceptive. This is really funny coming from a crowd half of whom use ONLY a first initial, then a middle name and last name. You know, things like J. Pingpong Pierpants, and the like.
So what’s wrong with going by “Joe”? The nutroots don’t say… but they find it “veddy, veddy suspicious”.
But there is even more horror in Joe’s deception. He doesn’t even have a plumber’s license! He’s not a member of the plumber’s union! So they say he isn’t really a “plumber”.
This is classic. In the world of the Left, if you aren’t part of the collective, you don’t exist, have no function, and possess no identity. You’re simply nobody. Joe doesn’t NEED the license at this point, under Ohio law, because he works for someone else who has one. Simple as that. But, you see, he isn’t REALLY a plumber, because he doesn’t have his union card. Imagine that: practicing piping without a license. Simply criminal! And more proof Joe is not to be trusted.
And then, the final straw: Joe owes back taxes! The Daily Kos calls him a tax cheat. One can only wonder what we’d discover if we had access to all the tax records of Kos diarists… but in the meantime, I thought a tax cheat was someone who avoided paying in some illegal way, not simply someone who was officially behind, and working on it. Not good enough for Kos: if you aren’t caught up on donating blood to the collective, you’re a bad little worker bee, and had better drain a few more ounces, right now.
What this is, of course, is the same kind of treatment Sarah Palin got, minus the sexist references that the “feminists” on the Left thought it appropriate to hurl at the single most popular Governor in the USA, who got to her position on her own, without piggy-backing on her husband’s name, purely on her own guts, drive and intelligence.
It sounds to me like Joe has those same characteristics, which is why, of course, the Left will do its best to destroy him, as soon as possible. They’re only for “working people” who salute properly, line up for the dole in good order, and don’t get uppity.
Resistance is futile.
I am really impressed with Joe the Plumber. Do you notice how clear he is? How easy to understand? How unflappable? Calm in the storm?
This guy should run for office.
Why don’t our politicians sound this? Simple. They’re mostly trying to hide what they really think, so they stumble around trying to figure out how to keep you from finding out what they believe, down deep.
Joe just speaks from the heart, out of his worldview, without reservation.
“Joe the Plumber” Calls Obama a Socialist for his “Spread the Wealth” Comment on Fox Nexs
UPDATE: This is not, of course, the first time plumbers have affected elections.
UPDATE: Here’s Michelle Malkin’s take.
Then, suddenly, the journalists who wouldn’t lift a finger to investigate Obama’s longtime relationships with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright sprang into action rifling through citizen Joe Wurzelbacher’s tax records. Politico.com reported breathlessly: “Samuel J. Wurzelbacher has a lien placed against him to the tune of $1,182.92. The lien is dated from January of ’07.” Press outlets probed his divorce records. The local plumbers union, which has endorsed Obama, claimed he didn’t do their required apprenticeship work and didn’t have a license to work outside his local township.
Hang him!
After Wurzelbacher told Katie Couric that Obama’s rhetorical tap dance was “almost as good as Sammy Davis, Jr.,” the inevitable cries of “bigotry” followed. (There are now tens of thousands of hits on the Internet for “Joe the Plumber racist.”)
Welcome to Joe the Plumber Derangement Syndrome. If you can’t beat him, smear him. It’s the Obama way.
