DISQUS

carp · 1 year ago

Don't forget unlicensed.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Yes, the fact that he is not a licensed plumber disqualifies him from being called Joe the Plumber. But the Republicans are evidently so accustomed to accepting lies that a Republican candidate could recite Mein Kampf for all they care. They believe what they want to believe, and the facts be damned.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

Palin/Joe the P. '12

grandma · 1 year ago

McCain on live now...said Joe the Plumber was there....and asks him to stand up.....well Joe the Plumber isn't there so McCain says.....everyone stand up, you're all Joe the plumber.

Uhhh....we are??.....some of us do pay our taxes when they're due McWinky.....

ellis0522 · 1 year ago

saw that and nearly fell off my chair laughing ... where was Joe? Probably with his agent/publicist. Come November 5 - win or lose - McCalin will ditch Joe with the bathwater ... and Joe likely doesn't even have a wrench top stop the flow.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

No... looks like "Joe the Plumber" has ditched McCain. "Joe the Plumber" almost tackled Barack Obama with his question. It proves what a narcissist he really is. He WANTED the attention and now that he got it he and Palin/McCain want to say the "investigation" of him is some kind of victimization.

chexmix · 1 year ago

I have long wondered where the intelligent conservatives are ... I know they exist. Where are they?

tlsintx · 1 year ago

they're all hiding in abject shame...
some are voting Obama...shhhhhh!

ellis0522 · 1 year ago

They disappeared into the past --- guys like Dole in his prime, Colin Powell, etc. Politicians who were more centrist, reached across the aisle in honesty, and not beholden to James Dobson, and the religious right

loona_c · 1 year ago

Olberman had a whole bit on him last night. He's also trying to get a country western recording contract and a book deal.

loona_c · 1 year ago

So yes, the republicans have been bery, bery good to him!

grandma · 1 year ago

I saw that lol....he also has a Publicist !!!

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

so he can sing and he reads and writes...we know he can't do arithmatic. What's his band called now Joe and the Plumbers Helpers...god this gets funnier by the hour.

PeteWa · 1 year ago

Unlicensed.
Claimed he was going to buy a business that was not for sale, and doesn't have the money for anyway.
Domestic abuser.
Doesn't pay taxes.
Better off under Obama, regardless.
Whines about all the attention, but keeps appearing in public, and now wants to be a celebrity.

In other words, another Republican who is just completely full of shit, his eyeteeth are floating in his own internal sewage.

imjussayin · 1 year ago

you stole my comment Carp! lol

Seriously tho,

John ..... unlicensed plumber?, delinquent on his taxes?, trying to enrich himself through his connection with a politician?

Sounds like a perfect Republican hero to me

kevinbgoode · 1 year ago

Only in RepublicanLand can someone continue to avoid paying their taxes and yet afford to hire an agent to market themselves as a hero and spokemodel. The GOP has been taken over by the ultimate in welfare queens - those who unabashedly live in comfort while contributing nothing to society.

Joe the Opportunist naturally expects everyone else to pay for his children's education, for the roads he drives on, for the bridges he crosses - and now for his tenuous standing as the allegedly Carhartt wearing white male welfare queen on the payroll of the Republican Party.
And yet the GOP can't figure out why the only people who relate to him are his fellow welfare queens and their golden parachutes at corporate headquarters and on Wall Street.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

I have to laugh, Joe the Plumber is working his way into FINALLY paying higher taxes under Obama.

KerrynowCampau · 1 year ago

That is funny

KerrynowCampau · 1 year ago

The appeal of Joe is that he gives hope to losers everywhere that they, too, can be suddenly plucked from obscurity and turned into a celebrity.

They just have to be in the right place at the right time.

It could happen at any moment......

caphillprof · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber doesn't feel real to me. Eventually, I think we'll learn that it was a set up from the beginning. That he was a paid operative sent to confront Obama to open up a trajectory for the McCain campaign.

That the Joe the Plumber narrative doesn't make sense is precisely what makes it so scary. It apparently engages those who eschew facts and logic. Joe is some sort of everyman totem for people who believe they'll hit the jackpot in the next lottery.

gwpriester · 1 year ago

I have this vision of Palin leaving the campaign to "spend more time with her family" and Joe the Bogus Plumber taking her spot.

Or in 2012, Palin Wurzelbacher (aka Dumb and Dumber)

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

LOL! Dumb and Dumber, I love it!

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

Joe, the Dumber -- plumbing the essence of stupidity for pure idiocy and Sarah, palin' in comparison.

gwpriester · 1 year ago

By the way, does anybody doubt for one second that bogus Joe was not a plant?

meemers · 1 year ago

He resonates well with the white folks...He resembles a skin-head!

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

Country has-been Aaron Tippin has inserted himself into "Joe the Plumber's 'career'"...

From Wikipedia:

In 2006, Tippin formed his own record label — Nippit Records, a joint partnership with Rust Nashville. His first release for the album, Aaron Tippin: Now & Then, produced the singles "Ready to Rock (In a Country Kind of Way)" and "He Believed", the latter of which peaked at #55 on the country charts, and the former failed to enter the country music charts. On September 9, 2007, Aaron released a new single called "Drill Here. Drill Now." which was inspired by the "Drill Here" movement led by Newt Gingrich at his American Solutions organization.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

OT

I watched McCain this morning and over the past few days, he is, IMO, coming on strong. He is sticking to issues, gone are the smear tactics, just the issues and quite honestly he is sounding better and better. Sure he still invokes Joe the Plumber but his overall speech is strong.

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

I've watched him the past few days too and he still spends half his energy bashing and trashing Obama sometimes outright lies (and sounding more and more angry). I think he sounds more and more desparate.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Yes, he is still trashing Obama but on the issues, lies sure, but all connected to issues. There is a different feel to his speeches over the last few days. Word is McCain is a strong closer and I think I am seeing that side of McCain. I could be wrong, I hope I am wrong.

slappymagoo · 1 year ago

I've mentioned this elsewhere but I don't mind repeating myself I don't mind repeating myself.

Joe the Plumber - as an "ideal" - represents a Republican wet-dream voter. He's the guy who knows voting for Obama is in his best interests, but he's STILL going to vote for McCain.

That's why the McCain campaign keeps trotting him out. He's the guy that tells you it's OK to be stupid. You say you don't know WHY you don't want to vote for Obama? That's OK. You don't HAVE to have a reason. Joe doesn't. You say you're not an educated voter? You don't HAVE to be! In fact, we recommend being as ignorant as Joe! You're better off. Who cares if McCain's economic & health care plans suck and he intends to keep us in Iraq indefinitely? You KNOW John McCain, just like you know ol' Joe the Plumber, and lots of guy just like 'em! Do the right thing. Do the Right thing. Do the White thing! Go like Joe and vote for McCain!

Excuse me, I have to throw up now.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

I think you hit the nail RIGHT on its head, slappy.

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

Thinking's for sissies! I'll go with my beer gut feeling.

barts · 1 year ago

Well! If I were Joe-the-Leiberman, I'd storm out of McToast's campaign and try to sidle up with the Democrats begging for forgiveness.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

I also love the PROPAGANDA about how cruel Democrats were to pluck "Joe the Plumber" from his happy obscurity and thrust him into the glaring limelight and INVESTIGATE HIM simply for asking a good question! Uh huh... "Joe the Narcissist/Opportunist" hasn't skipped a beat. Everyone, including loser Republicans, know this was "Joe the supposed Plumber's" ticket to B-list stardom. You have to be a very sad individual to buy into the whole "Joe the Plumber" schlock. It REALLY says a lot about the paternalistic juvenile way Republican politicians treat and campaign to their voters.

Anyone catch John McThesuleh this morning LIVE on MSNBC campaigning with the very ABSENT "Joe the Plumber." Seems he created an INVISIBLE MONSTER! John introduced him and HE WASN'T THERE! He ended up having to say, "YOU are 'JOE THE PLUMBER!'" It was a very senior moment for him. So sad... so sad...

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

I wonder with all the publicity, how Joe's doing plumber-wise. Has it hurt him or helped him? Would people be hiring him because he's a loutish, no-nothing Republican (a guy you could go plumbing with) or are they avoiding him because he's so stupid they're afraid to have him fool around with their pipes?

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Joe will never pick up a wrench again. McCain has given him a ticket out of plumbing without a license so that he can now launch his country music career. Then again, he is so multi-talented and doesn't know anything about policy so he will probably become a successful Republican politician. I am hoping that when he gets paid for his country music that he starts paying his taxes.

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

With his great experience in plumbing, he'll probably wind up as the Head of the Public Works Dept....or better yet, become a Nixonian Plumber (plumbing the depths if depravity).

Milli · 1 year ago

I remember his interview with ABC the morning after the debate.........

He was asked if the McCain people contact him prior to the Obama rally and asked him to go? He gives two totally different answers.

Its 39 seconds in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeX3zfvIwAA

anastasjoy · 1 year ago

Great Joe! RUN for Congress. Let's see Marcy Kaptur kick your ass, just like she kicked her current and past opponent Bradley Leavitt's ass 75%-25% in 2006.

meemers · 1 year ago

Joe is purely a manufactured personality: A gimmick....Kind of reminds me of "the Old Shoe in wag the dog" The hero in that movie story of a US marine caught behind enemy lines, However, they use a picture picture of a little known murderer. To create the character. The public bought it! The Old Shoe" is "created" and played on the radio, dedicating it to Sergeant Schumacher, making it a massive hit! Then he creates the story of how some people are expressing their solidarity to the war hero by throwing their old shoes onto tree tops. Soon all of America is throwing their old shoes onto tree tops!
Life imitating art!

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

Boy Bands, Velveta, Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin -- birds of a feather (La Cage Aux Folles)

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

"Are there any Republicans left who appreciate the debasement of their party that is happening before their eyes?"

Oh! I get it! Joe the Plumber in da basement....very good!

RobertSeattle · 1 year ago

"Joe the Mascot"

icruise · 1 year ago

Every time I hear them give those ridiculous lists of names and occupations in their stump speeches, I shake my head. It makes no sense. I'm willing to bet that the great majority of the people they are referring to would be better off financially under Obama. And if that's true, what's the point of the whole exercise? They seem to be using it as shorthand for people who don't like the concept of "spreading the wealth around" even though they apparently have no idea what that really means, or that our country has been doing exactly what Obama proposes for many many years.

MyVoice · 1 year ago

There is enough tape from the day after the debate to cancel any plans Joe had of running for Congress in Ohio. He stated that he grew up in the south and was upset to find out he was a "yankee" at the age of 18. How could you not know where you were born before you turned 18? Ohio is also a "yankee" state!

meemers · 1 year ago

LMFAO! Check out John McCains new campagne ad! I am JOE. What a f*cking joke!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dCubK5XgOo&eurl...

PissedSissy · 1 year ago

John,

I think I have the answer for you: Joe the Plumber = Jeff Gannon/James Guckert CLONE. In other words, this man is a PLANT. I would SO love to see the Americablog team dig deeper on this man - I would bet what's left of my 401(k) that if you dig deep enough, you'll find secrets that are just as bad as Gannon/Guckert.

Sic 'im, John, Sic 'im . . .

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly.

EmGD · 1 year ago

The fact that they want this phony to so desperately be their savior says a whole lot about the fragile mental state of McCain campaign. Hopefully Joe's not too deep into recording that country album so he can do a few campaign spots for the man who foisted his non plumbing ass on a beleaguered nation.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

There was a Samuel J. Wurzelbacher stationed in Alaska in the A/F who got a few speeding tickets back in the early 90s. Also someone with the same name who lived on Keating Ave. in Tucson, AZ., also in trouble with the law. And a domestic violence case involving Kimberly W. whose name is on the deed at Samuel J. Wurzelbacher's address in Holland, OH.

All of this is available online...and if the Rethugs' "Joe the Plumber" was born in 1973, it's probably the same guy. At least several sites believe they're all connected.

But what puzzles me is, why does he have custody of his son? Needs the tax deduction?

politicalguy · 1 year ago

I can't believe Joe got an agent...and has hopes for Congress- that's just ABSURD!

The GOP's obsession with Joe I think is hurting them more and more. At first the phenomena was good for marketing and made everyday Americans connect with McCain. WOR Radio 710 was discussing the matter the other day and agreed that its time to maybe leave the subject alone, as useful as it initially was.

LasloPratt · 1 year ago

This is a brilliant move on the part of the McCain campaign. In his current tax bracket, Joe the Plumber would do better under Obama's policies. So what do they do? They move him into a tax bracket that would do better under McCain.

That's change we can believe in, my friends. The guy didn't even have to marry an heiress...

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

Joe the skinhead, Joe the wife-beater----Joe the mega-creep.

mauro7inf · 1 year ago

Joe the Plumber for Congress '10!

I think he'd be great. Qualifications:

Real elite -- doesn't sully his hands with any plumbing. At least not any licensed plumbing.
Has thoughts on the world situation, doesn't keep them to himself regardless of whether they're right.
Refuses to answer substantive questions, leaving them as an exercise to the reader.
Doesn't pay taxes -- just like many Congressmen.
Lies about everything.

There are plenty of Republican-represented districts in the country whose representation would improve with this guy. Come on, Sam or Joe or whatever your name is, you can do it! The Democrats won't stand a chance with you on the ballot! Just make sure the seat you run for was held by a Republican, so you can get the extra treat of denying the Democrats a pickup opportunity. There's no way ::wink:: a Democrat can beat you!

eclecticbrotha · 1 year ago

John,

Joe the Schmoe is the perfect symbol of the blue collar dumbasses that have voted GOP since Reagan: short on facts, long on insults with no real idea of how the policies of the GOP will treat them after they acquire power.

Mark in Florida · 1 year ago

I don't get it either. I have to hand it to Shepard Smith yesterday who took him to task. I suspect this is why Joe the Plumber was MIA today. I can't believe McCain keeps this guy around. How is this guy, and Palin a winning strategy?? I really don't get it either.

I think McCain is secretly working for the Obama campaign.

kimbutgar · 1 year ago

I can't help but feel the "Joe the plumber" has been working with the Mccain campaign from the beginning and was planted to ask Obama the question about taxes. The mccain campaign just ran too quickly with using "joe the plumber" as a campaign theme. Something stinks big time and I think it is the sewers of joe the plumber. This was a set up folks!

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

I heard one report a few days ago that this guy elbowed his way to the front to meet Obama, as if he was on some kind of mission - my take from the questioning of Obama was that he was prepared with pre-planned questions. But then this is the moment that Obama said "Spread the wealth" and so its hard to say. At any rate, Joe the Plumber is a loser, just like the GOP.

And the good news? Palin will come out of the smoke as their leader. The GOP is history, for a long time to come.

laughingcrow · 1 year ago

That would make it even sadder. This is the best thing they could set up?

rexkc · 1 year ago

With all due respect to rednecks like Joe the Plumber...

People who vote like rednecks shouldn't be surprised or complain if the country goes to hell and they have to start living like rednecks.

Nylund · 1 year ago

Don't forget about Tito the Builder! Its Plumber/Builder '12. Every day, the GOP reminds me a bit more of a twisted and evil version of a Richard Scarry children's book.

Also, has it occurred to anyone else that McCain/Palin could do a pretty kickass Destro/Baroness costume for Halloween if they wanted?

henrythefifth · 1 year ago

Don't worry, they don't get the Joe the Plumber thing either. It's just more of their bizarre non-sequitur, thrashing about at anything campaign.

Joe is not even a sympathetic character. He's the self-proclaimed neighborhood "know it all" who actually knows nothing. I think we refer to people like him as "tools."

winchester · 1 year ago

I’m confused too. What in hell is a presidential candidate doing promoting some unlicensed plumber that doesn’t pay his taxes as someone that symbolizes the American everyman. I have a license do my job, and I pay my taxes, so where does that catagorize me? I’ll tell McCain/Palin that it categorizes me as someone who is voting their asses outta here!!

Talos · 1 year ago

There's more. Joe the Fucktard isn't even a plumber. What I don't get is how the MSM can keep calling him "Joe the Plumber" ("Joe the Fluffer" is more accurate) when that trailer trash moron has never been, and never will be, a plumber.

IAmATVJunkie · 1 year ago

This is all why I wrote a post called "Tax Cheats For McCain."

Which is at this link.

http://iamatvjunkie.typepad.com/i_am_a_tv_junki...

And, as a Joe, what also pisses me off is that my name is once again being dragged through the mud. At our last meeting, we all decided to call Joe by his actual first name, Sam.

Quite_Contrary · 1 year ago

Sam-Joe does an ad for Home Depot and I'll start driving the extra 20 miles to shop at Lowe's.

laughingcrow · 1 year ago

Onion has a great new headline about this:

"UNLICENSED PLUMBER AND TAX-EVADER ENDORSES MCCAIN"

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

Poor McCain he doesn't realize he is being used by the Palin to Governor and Joe the so called Plumber, singer wanting a contract, Joe wanting a book deal. Tell me when the hell is his 15 minutes of fame over?

Nylund · 1 year ago

"The May 29, 1993 edition of The Onion has a preposterous fake story about a character named Roy the Forklift driver becoming a media darling of the conservative movement."

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/30/onion-head...

OneManCommotion · 1 year ago

I think "boycot" of Home Depot is in order. Now!!!!!!!!!