Even Joe The Plumber Is Sick Of The GOP, Announces He's Leaving The Party
By Nicole Belle Thursday May 07, 2009 11:45am
Oh noes! If you can't hold on to your basic, "queer"-hatin', low-information, unlicensed plumber not really named Joe that you hold up for WAAAAYYYY past his fifteen minutes as the epitome of the Republican Party, who can you hold on to?
Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he's so outraged by GOP overspending, he's quitting the party — and he's the bull's-eye of its target audience. But he also said he wouldn't support any cuts in defense, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid — which, along with debt payments, would put more than two-thirds of the budget off limits. It's no coincidence that many Republicans who voted against the stimulus have claimed credit for stimulus projects in their district — or that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal stopped ridiculing volcano-monitoring programs after a volcano erupted in Alaska. "We can't be the antigovernment party," Snowe says. "That's not what people want."
All this while the Republicans back-pedal off their "listening tour" to find out how real Republicans want their party to move towards because they can't bear the thought of upsetting Rush Limbaugh. Tellingly, the enabling and complicit Time Magazine completely buries the lede deep within the article--fourteen paragraphs down--that the man who owes his entire fame to the Republican Party is now taking his ball and going home.
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And one by one, the rats leave the sinking ship.
You may be first here, but I am Claire Fromming Voyant.
fromming your voyants ricky! Someone could lose an eye!
He can check out from the Republican party any time he wants, but he can never leave.
Hotel Republican Party?
LOL.........one of my alltime favorite albums.
They are all just prisoners there of their own device.
... they gather for their feast. They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the Beast.
LOL! only the most overplayed song in history...and I get it here too! GAH!!
He looks like he's trying to work out how to operate a door handle.
what exactly he does for a living.
Someone asked him how to fix a broken toilet!
haven't had a 'caption this' post here for awhile...
bothall three are great.Mine:
"What's your name?"
That one's good too!
Oh, I found it - it's right here behind my neck!!
Thank you ladies and gents! I'm here all week, try the veal!
he's not really bald, either.
The only way you can tell his head from his ass is more shit comes from the head.
Bravo! And Harumph!
The sad reality is when the right wing claims Joe the Plummer is the 'average American'- they are partly right- He represents the typical ignorant, inarticulate bigoted Republican. So he IS one of them...
Now that he wants to jump from his gravy train, where will he go?
He is best suited to gather shopping carts from his local supermarket...
gatherings.
Do not bring your Nazi dementia bullshit to us progressives.
Every time he gets pinned down he trots out the standard "I'm neither a republican OR a democrat."
The repugs ain't nowhere near conservative enough for the likes o' him...and the Dems are entirely too nice, smart and good looking to let him into their clique...so...no where to go but libertarian.
if it works for Arlen Sphincter, shouldn't it work for Joe the non-plumber?
the Montana Freemen?
or the welfare line?
border watchers?
Why doesn't he want cuts in social security, medicaid or medicare? I would have thought he'd have wanted those programs eliminated outright.
on those programs.
and they'd be on Medicaid in a home.
that he's smart enough to put a mike in front of. there is no limit to the stupidity our media will propagate. no limit whatsofuckingever.
We are all waiting for Joes' next move, away from the damn spotlight already!
oh no! where's our V.P. running mate for 2012??
Palin/Plumber 2012. The best part is it wouldn't take long for the media to start talking about the attraction between the two of them, then Todd Palin gets arrested for murder when they find Joe under the bleachers of a campaign even with a crossbow bolt in his chest.
on his shiny shiny head.
Mobiles are what you hang above baby Trigg and his little nephews O'Nometry's cribs.
.
Palin/Jindall as their dream ticket? the "Final Nail Team".
Maybe he's thinking of growing a goatee and hunting ghosts.
But then he'd actually have to get some plumbing experience.
So...no dice there I'm afraid...
Employment seems to be no requirement.
. . . this guy will have his own radio show within the month. Declaring his 'independence' from the GOP would be necessary to position himself, if a media company is interested.
You can't buy the kind of publicity this moron has received. He has a ready-made audience, thanks to McCain/Palin. Lots of Red-staters would tune in just out of curiosity.
Such a pleasure it is!
Watching the GOP self-destruct before our very eyes!
The GOP isn't dying...but the extremist views within it's party are being and will be exorcised.
It's political evolution, but...I must say...it's great theatre and a helluva lot of fun to watch!
So is Loser Joe the Wingnut going to join the Taliban to further his extremist Conservative agenda, or perhaps a career in TV Evangelicalism to further his typical Republican 'Ignorant Big Mouth' addiction?
First question, why the hell was Time talking to him?
Maybe Glenn Beck could use a co-host. Second question, what the hell kind of party would bring focus on him to begin with? The McCain campaign must have been doing serious drugs when they chose Palin and again when they trotted him out as their "every man".
That was absolutely adorable when Obama was 'ambushed' by 'Joe' and handily answered his question with grace and aplomb, and yet McCain had a grin on his face every time he mentioned 'Joe' as if the trap had not backfired on him. As if Obama had wilted under the merciless questioning, flounced his black cape and skulked off in shame.
And to find out later of the connection between 'Joe' and McCain... that was just icing on the cake.
Nice head of skin!
Oh and I have a third question. Where is he getting his money these days? Does he have a job? Did the republicans stop financing him and that's why he has turned against him?
tea. Or teabags.
Oh, with Joe, I'm not so sure. Remember he spoke at one of the tea baggin' parties.
He's only outraged now? Where's he been the last 30 years?
watching sit coms and eating pork rinds.
I'm guessing he's going to run for some office and maybe run as an independent. What scares me is that in some areas he might have a chance at winning.
....The GOPers can rest easy knowing that their hard core of morons, Storm Front racists, KKK'ers, fundamentalist wackos and the like will remain solid Republicans.
I just hope Plumber Joe doesn't want to come over the the Blue side, hoping to redden it up. The Democratic party is already far too rightwing and corporatist as it is.
Yes, the last thing the democratic party needs is more stupid.
Reid won't offer him?
Maybe a "seat" in the toilet department.
Reid would offer him the Presidency if he could.
.
This is just another stunt to expand his 15 minutes. The man can't do anything original either - Arlen Specter quit the party and everyone is talking about him so Joe the Schmoe has to get his share of the limelight. The guy is a total whore. He needs to go away way back when he asked Obama a question on the election circuit. Where's my time machine?
I think your explanation hits all of the key points . . thanks.
This is kind of weird. After all those appearances and receiving center stage, Joe must have had "handlers" in the Republican party that helped to coordinate his opinions and shape his message. I very much doubt he was his own man at this stage of the game.
So what is behind the sudden change of heart? It isn't like he is a man of principles. Could it be a petty disagreement between him and his republican handlers, or is it some kind of dispute over compensation? (don't tell me he doesn't get paid by the Republicans for his role)
oh looky...the freak got himself back in the news
first he calls gays...queers...cuz its in the dictionary
then he leaves the repuke party for doing what theyve been doing the past 30 years
total joke
Probably the last group of republicans he visited didn't make him feel all horny. The affair is over and Joe's calling it quits. He's not feelin' the love any longer.
LOL Pat. How can he go from horny to flaccid so quickly?
He saw that Ann Coulter was in the party.
Hell, maybe he made a move on her and she turned him down.
If the GOP looses the dimwitted reactionary homophobic teabaggers, who's left?
They only lost one. The Coulter wing is still strong.
It's like losing your right nut. Just one less lump in your teabag.
Is he pissed b/c he didn't get invited to the pizza party?
Really, he so wanted to be invited to go on the
listeningteachingwhatever it was tour.It's trademarked by EIB.
He heard they were giving out free twisty bread.
Ut oh! Will he have to apologize to Rush for what he said about the republican party?
He didn't call Rush and entertainer, did he?
No, so he won't actually have to physically kiss Rush's ass, just bend down and beg his forgiveness.
Ahhhh, I love the smell of schadenfreude in the afternoon! The GOP is really in so much trouble and I'm loving it! :)
huh? isn't he one administration too late?
How does this dude support his family? Some "socialist" program?
Does this mean he's going away? Far, far away?
I am anxious to see how the Re-Public-Cons, McCain and Palin twist Joe The Plumbers abandoning the party. If this is TRUE, it is a real slap in the face for the entire Re-Public-Con religiousity party
Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin.
And they are in fact gifts that keep on giving!
Oh no, if Joe leaves then who will fix the toilet next time Republicans have to flush away their ethics?
There's been too much shit floating to the top of the GOP's toilet. No plumber can handle that, not even a real one.
So, the white trash are finally sick of the super rich hanging them out to dry. I guess those tax cuts and bailouts mean that (non) taxpayer Joe and his recently laid off buddies are unnecessary after all. Oh gee, we only had 490,000 more people laid off last month. Things are getting better!
Joe really can't leave the republican party. He's all tatoo'ed with Palin and McCain on his inner thighs. In color. It's the kind of feddish a "real plumber" has to deal with. He really is the true, future of the GOP...Tatoo's and all. JOE CANNOT LEAVE THE republican PARTY. Put some hair on it too.....
will you put a big picture and story of me on this site??? If not why not. I am so sick of everybody giving thit LOSER pub that my head might explode. Who in the hell gives a rat's ass what he does. It is beyong belief.
"Democratic Party"
You wouldn't happen to be a troll now would you?
........you're right! Bob's lack of knowledge in the semantics department gave him away. Begone, Troll!
.......on joining the Nazi party----I believe his beliefs are more in line with theirs. I say, Bon Voyage, Joe; we're sick of you, too.!
I have to admit, when I saw the news that Joe the Plumber was leaving the GOP, I half-expected the link taking me to the story to lead to a Rickroll. Then I realized that much of what Joe the Plumber said and did made me feel like I was being Rickrolled, anyway, so I figured the story was legitimate.
He'll either resurface:
- With his own talk-radio show.
- With Newt Gingrich's new, improved 'third party' (expecting something like 'Liberty' or 'Patriot' in the title)
- A guest on Hannity, Beck, or anyone else selling the 'tea party' / 'not conservative enough' pile.
Joe's looking for an even dumber party to join.
DUMB and PLUMBER?
...here.
WTF??? This guy is some planted campaign stooge from a YouTube video. Why is anyone paying attention?
Joe wins. He's probably made his million by just hanging out for a while. He can safely disappear and retire in privacy. Nice job, if you can get it.
Oh, and nice little other-black-eye for the GOP.
Say it ain't so, Joe! Woe is me!
GOP can save some money not having to pay to drag Joe's sorry ass event-to-event. It's just too bad they lose their new brain trust.
The Grand Old Potty.
starting the food stamp party.
1. What the hell is "Joe" doing it Time?
and 2. Bwahahahahahahahaha!
I can't for the life of me understand why this guy who is neither a Joe nor a plumber (and who cares...?) is getting so much attention paid to everything he says. (Again, who cares....?) He is beyond a bad joke, he is a nut job...obviously has an IQ lower than his age...not atypical of the Republican party, and nothing he says has any degree of relevance or substance...please, stop paying this guy so much attention..it's sick.
This is where we are, people:
Elizabeth Hasselback has dissed Joe the P and Joe the P has dissed the party that made him famous.
Bristol Palin's on tv holding her baby talking about abstinence.
Sean Hannuty is dissing the prez's mustard.
Meanwhile, in the adult corner .............
must have bounced. What a vampire.
He is sick of the GOP as much as they probably have stopped paying him fo his services.Time to rejoin the real world SAM!
the fact that Rush Limbaugh has been made the so-called leader of the Republican party is reflective of just how out of touch they are. The real base, the Joe 6packs, couldn't give a rats-behind about El Rushbo or what he says. Maybe guys like Hannity, Coultergeist and BillO can ruffle their feathers and fear monger, but at the end of the day these middle America "Republicans" have simpler needs.
and I hope no one is falling for this switching parties crap. There is a saying that when a fellow leaves Texas for Arkansas, the average IQ of both states goes up. Same thing when a Republican leaves the GOP for the Democratic party: both parties shift to the right...which is the wrong direction! The country is moving left, but the political parties are both moving right. WTF? Further evidence is how moderate/centrist Democrats like Obama and Clinton get labeled "liberal", far left, or even Socialist. The plan seems to be to label even moderates as far left wackjobs in order to make real liberals or progressives seem insanely out of their mind left wing communists. IMO the political system (on the national level) is more F'd than we care to admit.
I wouldn't put any more trust in Joe's latest revelation than any of his previous statements. He's simply attempting to extend his already over-extended fifteen minutes of fame.
Anyone in need of an irrelevant, ignorant spokesperson who polls well among the uneducated and biased masses?
Everybody can smell the stench of the rotting, dying GOP.
If Joe the Plumber leaves the republican party, will he cease to exist?
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