Joe the Plumber Prime GOP VP Material
Who could replace Dick Cheney as the ideal Republican VP nominee in 2012? Joe Wurzelbacher, who appeals to the know-nothing thuggery of the Republican base. Yesterday Joe threatened violence to Nancy Pelosi. He’ll be advocating torture and shooting his friends in the future to further boost his drive for the VP slot.
The qualifications for a Vice Presidential slot are simple in the Republican Party. One must bring along a constiuency, just as Dick Cheney brought the established Republican machine with him. Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, brings the know-nothing anti-intellectual branch of the Republican Party with him, which comprises a huge portion of the GOP base. But is that enough for him to be named as the Vice Presidential nomination in 2012?
Yesterday Joe the Plumber put forth his strongest bid yet to become the GOP Vice Presidential nominee in 2012. Following in the footsteps of Dick Cheney, who has not only shot a friend in the face but also loudly cursed a Senator on the Senate floor, Joe the Plumber upped the ante. He’s not just appealling to the thug faction of the GOP, as Cheney did with his torture regimes and assorted other thuggery. Yesterday he promised to “beat the livin’ tar” out of Nancy Pelosi. From Alternet, via ThinkProgress:
“For Pelosi to write about us bein’ un-American and disprespectful–,” Wurzelbacher said, “I’ll tell ya what, I respect nobody who lies to me and [humiliates] me and takes my money and puts my children in debt — they want me to be respectful toward them? Please!”
The crowd roared.
“You know, I’m not the most civilized person,” Wurzelbacher continued. “Those kind of people, I usually took behind the woodshed and just beat the livin’ tar out of ‘em.”
There’s Joe, not only playing to the know-nothing base, but riling up the thug faction of the GOP, just as Cheney has done over the last few years. That Joe the Plumber isn’t a college graduate, or even a licensed plumber, should not phase the GOP faithful, not when he’s offering to flex those muscles for the cause. Besides, team him up with Sarah Palin and she’ll show enough college experience (attended five colleges in a six year span) for the both of them. That’s the ticket, Palin/Plumber, 2012.
Then again, maybe Joe the Plumber will take the Al Franken route to high office and start a career as a comedian. It could happen.
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George W
What’s amazing is how seriously GW took this little column. Very odd. Any mention of Joe the Plumber as VP material would be greeted by a sane person as farce, which is exactly what this is.
Just doesn’t work so well when you have to explain it.
Message to O’Blama…. You are a one-termer. Rush and his millions of right-minded souls will be pleased when YOU FAIL!
My Fellow Founding Fathers and Mothers are watching you with disgust.
your faithful servant NOT
Gen’l G. Washington, President of these united States
I think Joe (Sam) the (non)plumber put his children in debt all by himself.
Why wasn’t he railing against free health care when he was collecting his welfare checks? Because when you get welfare (government assistance) you also get health care.
It would be nice if some reporter would remind him of that from time to time.
And, instead of trying to milk the rethuglican’t party for anything he can get, why doesn’t he go back to work as a plumber? Even in a bad economy, the shit is stacking up. Higher.