Joe teh Plumber surviving on handouts; oops!

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Last week we had a very clear piece of advice for human campaign prop Joe "Wurzelbacher" The Plumber: get to plumbing! All this hype he's getting as a McCain hack isn't worth shit except free advertising for his core business of Roto-Rooting. But Joe has failed to heed our warning, surprisingly. He's broke, and he's not afraid to complain about it on national television shows such as the respected Inside Edition! Thank god those mysterious checks that appear in his mailbox regularly are at least temporarily offsetting the freeloading Obama supporters trying to take food off his family:

"I'm not getting paid for things. It's starting to get hard to eat," the now-famous Joe the Plumber tells INSIDE EDITION's Deborah Norville.

What is this, Russia?

On the eve of election day, Joe, a single dad, told INSIDE EDITION he's getting by with help from friends and family, along with donations from well-wishers.

"It's hard being on the receiving end, a little bit of pride gets in there sometimes," admits Joe.

"So you just go to the mailbox and there's an envelope with a check in it, written to your name?" marvels Norville.

"Yes ma'am," Joe says.

With the help of these unidentified checks from shadowy sources, Joe has been able to do some pro bono plumbing for his friend—an Obama supporter. Of course, if McCain won, Joe would probably be set for life. But he won't, so Joe better get back to plumbin'. He has the potential to dominate the Holland, Ohio drain cleaning market, if he acts now.
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And Obama wants to make America a place for handouts?

Also, I'm embarrassed that this fucker is wearing my university's jersey when he probably didn't even graduate high school. Though that's most of the people in Ohio anyway; never went to Ohio State but worship the place anyway.

I also heard a radio ad today with JOE THE PLUMBER speaking for the McCain campaign. And Friday night, after McCain's rally in town, there was a fat white woman in the restaurant I was having dinner with a "JOE" workman outfit sticker on her muumuu. I facepalmed.
 
I think the official "JOE" shirt should have armpit stains and cheeto dust all over it, to symbolize the couch-sitting he's doing when he's not working. Which is, it seems, all the time.
 
The thing is I can't believe the McCain campaign picked up this guy anyway after the debate, when it was proven he lied about his name, his job, his income, and pretty much everything else. Though I suppose most everyone on the McCain campaign does that anyway, so he fit right in.
 
I still don't understand why rednecks love republicans. You'd think they'd want to maximize their utility with a welfare state vis a vis supply side tax breaks.
 
Rednecks are too stupid to think that logically. They vote for people who'll hurt them economically just to vote for conservative social issues that have no direct impact on their lives.

Edit: Dead of Knight nailed it.
 
Thing is, there's no fucking way Republicans would ever overturn Roe v. Wade. They controlled all three branches of government for several years in the Bush era. They had their chance and they didn't do it. They just hang on to the issue because they KNOW tons of people (like some members of my Catholic family) will vote for them just because of that one issue, and these people are too gullible and fearful to realize that it'll never happen. It's like that with pretty much every other issue as well, with some variation. It's not always about stupidity either. Sometimes that fear can overcome rational thought. Such is the case with my great-aunt, a brilliant chemist who votes Republican just because they are supposedly "pro-life."
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']Thing is, there's no fucking way Republicans would ever overturn Roe v. Wade. They controlled all three branches of government for several years in the Bush era. They had their chance and they didn't do it. They just hang on to the issue because they KNOW tons of people (like some members of my Catholic family) will vote for them just because of that one issue, and these people are too gullible and fearful to realize that it'll never happen. It's like that with pretty much every other issue as well, with some variation. It's not always about stupidity either. Sometimes that fear can overcome rational thought. Such is the case with my great-aunt, a brilliant chemist who votes Republican just because they are supposedly "pro-life."[/quote]

Why would you think it'd be overturned? No one on thought they'd try to overturn it. The Supreme Court definitely wouldn't overturn it, even with Bush's appointees.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']Why would you think it'd be overturned? No one on thought they'd try to overturn it. The Supreme Court definitely wouldn't overturn it, even with Bush's appointees.[/QUOTE]

The Republicans have led many people to believe that they're in the business of overturning it, and the theocon politicians have pretty much outright said they would like it overturned. Have you seriously ever talked to a single-issue pro-life voter before? You'd be surprised.
 
Overturning Roe v. Wade = dangling carrot.

You don't expect them to give up the carrot, do you, and implore people to vote based on *loyalty* to the party instead, do you?
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Overturning Roe v. Wade = dangling carrot.

You don't expect them to give up the carrot, do you, and implore people to vote based on *loyalty* to the party instead, do you?[/QUOTE]

Spoken like a true college professor. :applause:
 
There's a term in the study of social movements that refers to this very idea, but since I can't recall the term, I'm not feelin' too professor-y right now.

More like a cynic.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']The thing is I can't believe the McCain campaign picked up this guy anyway after the debate, when it was proven he lied about his name, his job, his income, and pretty much everything else. Though I suppose most everyone on the McCain campaign does that anyway, so he fit right in.[/quote]

Yeah, and Joe has been great for the McCain campaign. Politics is very similar to advertising - it's all about perception, not reality.
 
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