rssRegrets? Joe the Plumber Has a Few
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 9:28 am
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Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher was a late addition to the speaker lineup at the How to Take Back America Conference last weekend in St. Louis, but I don’t know what the attendees would have done without him. After his short Friday night dinner speech, Wurzelbacher was given a golden wrench and a golden plunger by Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). When the dinner ended, he was mobbed by fans asking for pictures with him. Because he showed up in a T-shirt and jeans — as he’s done to every conservative conference I’ve seen him at — photos with Wurzelbacher look like they were taken the day he met Barack Obama in his Ohio neighborhood.
When I got a few minutes with Wurzelbacher, I wanted to know: What ever happened to IRSVote.com, the Website where users were asked to pay $0.99 for a phone call to “vote the IRS out of business” and replace the income tax with a FairTax? While the site is still up and running, Wurzelbacher admitted that endorsing the site was probably a mistake.
“I’m learning,” he said. He started to say something about the people who hound him to endorse their products, but he thought better of it. “The basics were there for a great idea but they definitely want to do it just for money. And it was sold to me as more of a chance of doing something else. The publicity that they promised never came.”
Wurzelbacher shrugged. The idea had made sense to him, he said — people will vote for American Idol, so why not something important? But he said he’d walked away from the project, and his PajamasTV reporting job was only a three-month gig, so the high-profile projects of earlier this year were no more. He had, however, endorsed a conservative comic strip called “Microman USA,” which was on sale at the conference.
The woman right behind Wurzelbacher with the white and black Jacket is Cheryl Eager, a conservative candidate running against Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah). The woman right in front is Kitty Werthmann, a South Dakota Eagle Forum leader who led a workshop on the conference on “How to Recognize Living Under Nazis & Communists.”
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Comment posted September 28, 2009 @ 5:42 pm
“Microman”, huh? I've never known rightwingers to be this self-disclosing before…
Comment posted September 28, 2009 @ 6:04 pm
“How to Recognize Living Under Nazis & Communists.”
I would have thought that would be a no brainer, but I guess I would be wrong…
Comment posted September 28, 2009 @ 6:32 pm
Living under Nazis and Communists? Tough to recognize something that's never happened.
Comment posted September 28, 2009 @ 7:22 pm
You mean the free market screwed Wurzelbacher? What a surprise.
Comment posted September 28, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
It's impossible to believe he has not succeeded … he is SOOOO white!
Comment posted September 28, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
Can a political party really survive once the median IQ of its members has dipped below 75? The GOP is about to find out.
Comment posted September 28, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
Wuzelbacher, Werthmann, ….. Is there a Schickelgruber or an Eichmann in the house? Couldn't they find a Smith, or a Johnson, or even a Lieberman, Cohen, or Rubinstein? Is there only room for ethnic Germans in the right wing movement?
Comment posted September 29, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
When they handed him the wrench and the plunger he probably said “hey, neat! What are these for?”
Comment posted October 3, 2009 @ 6:23 pm
Total WHACK JOB opportunist! I would be embarrassed if I were Republican, but I am not and get great fodder out of this crazy dude. He probably meets men in public bathrooms for blowjobs and denies he has homosexual tendacies. Or, he is a lesbian in disguise based on how he always dresses. Sometimes it is more appropriate to dress up for occasions, but Joe most likely does not own a pair of slacks, a dress shirt, a tie, or a sport coat. Rock on Joe! Please come back and get into the public new media>>>we need an idiot to have some laughs with.
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