Glenn Beck recently claimed that the Tea Bagging movement was not just “stupid people with pitchforks.” I’ll have to agree. It’s also about many other kinds of stupid people. One of them is Joe Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber,” who claims that God’s plan for him is to work in the faux grassroots Tea Bagging movement. From WingNutDaily:

“Americans in general have a short memory,” Wurzelbacher said. “After Sept. 11 happened, we were patriots for six months, and then half of them fell off. Now there’s a very real threat to our country. I don’t believe any one nation can take us out, but I definitely think we can take ourselves out.”

Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, “I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”

He continued, “I believe he’s gotten me on this grassroots movement. If I can encourage leaders to step up, that’s what I would like to do. That’s a heavy role. That’s something I don’t know if I am prepared to do yet.”

But Wurzelbacher said he will keep that door open if God ever calls him to be that leader.

“I just know whenever I fall off his path, things get really hard,” he said. “So I just stick with what God tells me to do.”

OK, there’s more important stuff here than God being a teabagger. Joe Wurzelbacher says God has not given him the go-ahead to run for office. Oh, sure, Joe Wurzelbacher says he’s open to the notion of running for office if God whispers in his ear, but it seems clear we’re not going to see that happen in the near future. And that’s a shame. Every minute Joe Wurzelbacher is the face of conservatives is a bright day for liberals and Democrats. As such, God telling Joe not to run for office just might be a sign that God hates liberals and Democrats.

I apologiaze to anyone who now has an image of Joe the Plumber int he act of teabagging running around their brain. That image might be just as ugly as one of the man talking, and for that I apologize as well.