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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Joe The Plumber: Wanted To Get Off The McCain Bus; Lesser Of Two Evils; Palin Is The Real Deal
Posted by: Jonathan Garthwaite at 9:10 AM
Granted he's got a book coming out but Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher doesn't hold back in his comments about John McCain during an interview yesterday with Glenn Beck.

GLENN: Well, okay. Let's take them one by one. Tell me about John McCain, something that I don't know.

JOE THE PLUMBER: Well, something you don't know, actually it's probably stuff that you've already guessed and has already been painted in the different media spotlights. Just, well, you know, the bailouts. When I was on the bus with him, I asked him a lot of questions about the bailout because most Americans did not want that to happen, yet he voted for it. At the same time he's talking about how he's going to make somebody famous if they even think about putting pork in the bill? We all know how much pork was in the $700 billion bailout package. And why did he vote for it? And I asked him pretty direct questions and some of the answers you guys are going to receive, you know, they appalled me, absolutely. You know, I was angry. In fact, I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.

GLENN: Really?

JOE THE PLUMBER: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: Why didn't you get off the bus?

JOE THE PLUMBER: Honestly because the thought of Barack Obama becoming President scares me even more.

GLENN: Okay. Now, let me just -- 

JOE THE PLUMBER: I almost -- 

GLENN: Let me play devil's advocate here and let me play the New York Times, except I'll be fair. Isn't that part of the problem, Joe, that people will sell out their values because they will say, "No, well, I just don't want that; so I'll take this, I'll settle for this." Isn't that the problem with our system of government right now is we've settled for so long, we keep getting something that we don't want and it just gets worse and worse and worse.

JOE THE PLUMBER: Well, and that's exactly right. I mean, you know, hopefully I wasn't too big a proponent of that, this -- what do you call it -- tripping post, if you will. There isn't somebody. Neither campaign put out a -- no, I'm not going to speak for the Democrats but I mean, the Republicans didn't put out a candidate for us to really vote for. It's the lesser of two evils. When you get to that level, you've compromised your principles, you've compromised your values so often and you owe your soul to whatever special interest group or lobbyist has padded your campaign finances and everything else that you no longer are your own man. So you can no longer stand on your own feet because they've been cut out from underneath you years ago.

GLENN: What did you think of Sarah Palin?

JOE THE PLUMBER: Sarah Palin's absolutely the real deal. You know, I only got to spend a short amount of time with her but, you know, it was been asked if I felt any presence when I was with John McCain or Barack Obama. You know, with Sarah Palin, I don't want to say I felt a presence but she definitely had energy and she definitely went to work for American people, and it disgusts me on how often they try to bash her just for her sincerity. It's just, you know, she really wants to work for America and I mean, I wish people would listen to her and let them, and let her work for us. You know, she wants to serve us. She's not looking for power.



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Ronna writes: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 4:19 PM
2 cents is a coward
she comes on and throws enuendos and vicious gossip around then leaves because she only has one argument and she knows none of us are buying it.
james beam writes: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 3:05 PM
2 cents
you are the angel of venom.Get over it darlin.
nobody cares.
Virginia Patriot writes: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 2:37 PM
No Cheap Labor Importers Need Apply
Unless Palin changes her mind about following McCain's lead with "we can't/shouldn't enforce our immigration laws", she'll get no support from me. Unless any candidate is willing to uphold the rule of law and American sovereignty, they can save their breath.
eddie too writes: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 2:25 PM
I think any acknowledgement of

2cents' post encourage her irrationalism and posting. Just saying ...
Brian writes: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 2:09 PM
2 cents bubble
After reading your comments here for a while, I can only conclude that your "2 cents" is yet another value bubble that is about to burst. Maybe the Feds can bail you out next.

Sarah Palin has more character in her pinky toenail than you ever will. You do nothing but vomit hate and slander, she does nothing but carry on with a positive attitude and a can do spirit. The sooner you deal with your hate syndrome, the better off you will be.
Ronna writes: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 2:05 PM
my2centsminus: I am serious about
you being an idiot when I say that:

You have this sick mindset of believeing that an "assumed affair" of an official is far greater a crime than that of the person you voted for - a lying, elections stealing, conspiracy committing fraud, a monster who voted for infanticide, a man who is guilty of supporting gay marriage, and giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens, taxing we Americans to death, of who knows how many coverups of nefarious associations with bombers, felons, the Chigaco Mafia, someone who is giving speeches from Muslim nations, consorting with our enemy on several levels, not producing a valid, certified, true and correct, vaulted, original, court registered and sealed birth certificate proving US Citizenship, and God knows what all else we have no idea about.

You need to get off those stupid pills you pop every day and set some priorities here as to what is important to this "Nation as a whole" instead of wallowing in your self satisfactory and imagined accomplishment of voting for a Socialist/commie-minded, Hitler wannabe who spent all of 148 days in his Senate office before deciding he was fit and qualified enough to run for President and was able to win with those pathetic reasons because idiots like you 'settled stupid scores' and put him into office.

You're just jealous that you could never be a pimple on Sarah Palin's asss, and so dumb and simple minded that you can't see past one subject at a time. Have you been evaluated by a trained professional lately?

The case workers should have looked a little harder at your inability to reason before entrusting you with so many impressionable minds.
my2centsplus writes: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 1:32 PM
Palin the 'real deal?"
You CANT be serious. Ask Mrs. Brad Hanson about the 'real deal'. She's a total fake, and is now enjoying watching her approval ratings drop as her REAL life is exposed. Not the fake one she trys. Not the photo op family she ignores. Not the knocked up 17 yr old about to marry (yea right) a 18 yr old baby daddy drop out. Her roosters or chickens, are coming home to roost. And I for one, will be glad when the Bimbo is off the national stage. Call me bitter. I am not. But I at least enjoy an higher IQ than Palin. (of course, that's pretty easy to have. One just needs a kindergarten education to do that!)
ScarletPimpernel writes: Wednesday, December, 10, 2008 1:03 PM
well, Loyalists?
Doesn't this hit the bullseye?
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