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Joe the Plumber Bails on McCain

Check out this hilarious blooper from McCain's rally in OH today. After calling on his new found poster boy to stand up and be recognized, the Senator realizes that he's nowhere to be found. McCain not-so-quickly recovers by saying, "You're all Joe the Plumber. So all of you stand up!"

Maybe Joe was in the studio recording his new album? Classic.

And apparently he needed to bus in a boat load of kids to fill the audience.

A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.

UPDATE: John Amato:

I guess McCain didn't mind when Joe the Plumber was made a fool of by Sheppard Smith and said this about Joe.

"...it just gets frightening sometimes."

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BigIslandDave's picture

... for McGramps and Moosegirl.

Man, what a ready-made Halloween costume McCain is! With those robotic arms and bulging cheeks and rotted teeth, he'd scare the bejeebus out of any trick-or-treater!

I was going to say "first," but then thought better of it. ;)

Bullwinklemoose's picture

Sorry John, no Joe the Plumber and even Sarah the douchebag was missing. Maybe she was making another baby with Joe the Plumber. She was probably learning how to snake his pipe.

Ali's picture

I would feel sorry for him if he weren't running such a dispicable campaign.

Blue Lensman's picture

You're all tax-evading, unlicensed, delinquent, welfare fathers!!! HOORAY!!

PATRICK's picture

Joe the Plumber :|

LET'S VOTE ALREADY!!!!!

Floridiot's picture

Our tax dollars at work?

That's crap

kirkaracha's picture

Accuracy of the claim aside, by claiming that we've learned more about Obama in two weeks thanks to "Joe" the "Plumber"'s question than we have in two years, isn't McCain basically admitting he's run a crappy campaign that has failed to define his opponent or educate people about him?

Torontonian's picture

The same thing happens in Canada when the right to life groups have a demonstration against abortion.

The local Catholic and evangelical schools bus in their students to swell the numbers.

It's a desperation move no matter how you look at it.

Floridiot's picture

Why is it that they keep saying that the polls are close when McCain has to bus people in to fill his venues?
I call BS

Big Boppa's picture

they've found a way to have all these kids vote.


I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....

ysbaddaden's picture

I thought republicans were against bussing.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

TheBeatles120's picture

I guess Joe The Plumber had someone else's crap to go take care of.

Sorry...it was too easy.

That's what McCain gets for picking an inexperienced, liar redneck from nowhere to represent his campaign...(Sorry, not you this time Palin)

Semi-hermit Bob's picture

It's just getting sad now. Can someone please give that poor old man a ride home?

LeftandLeft's picture

Joe was busy doing some pipe work at the condo of a gay, Muslim, elitist, black socialist with terrorist ties.

ysbaddaden's picture

You forgot Satanist arugula eater.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Alice X - Chomsky Nader's picture

And Witch Hunter!

Oh wait, that's Palin's guy.

Nevermind!


statusquObama, change you can only pretend in

pissed off patricia's picture

I would bet a large sum of money that this isn't the first time Mccain has bused in kids for his rallies. I wish someone could find out about this.

Guess where I first heard about all these kids being bused in today. It was on Fox news this morning. Whoever their guy is that's traveling with McCain told about it.

That's funny that Joe skipped out on his date with McCain. I guess Joe figured he had milked this campaign enough to get what he wanted so he flew the coop. If the guy had any sense he would go into hiding. He has been made to look like a total fool, and to make it worse, fox news had a big hand in that.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Loonie's picture

"That's funny that Joe skipped out on his date with McCain. I guess Joe figured he had milked this campaign enough to get what he wanted so he flew the coop."

Narcissism is very becoming of a Republican.

"If the guy had any sense he would go into hiding. He has been made to look like a total fool"

Not having any sense and total foolishness are also very becoming of a Republican.

DevilDog21's picture

...and were parents notified before they went to this thing? If my school district did this without my permission, they would have an instant lawsuit on their hands at a bare minimum.

My high school junior son is a big Obama supporter and would not have wanted to attend this. What happened to the kids who objected?

What a pathetic loser.

Via's picture

I wonder how long it will be before Cindy dumps Gramps?

Big Boppa's picture

My guess is by December.


I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....

Blue Lensman's picture

she needs a fix these last few days.

Mr. Dave's picture

If he loses, I'm sure his chances of getting dumped/cut off are dramatically increased.


"Culture is not your friend."

Blue Lensman's picture

she ever made.

Mr. Dave's picture

Worst. Investment. Ever.


"Culture is not your friend."

miss_kitty's picture

pathetically hilarious.

ysbaddaden's picture

Or gramps dumps his Depends?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Actually, McCain Ditches Joe the
Plumber, for ‘Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber

sbell's picture

Ooooohhh, those dick fingers again!

pissed off patricia's picture

One county here in Florida is busing 18 year olds to the voting booths if the kids want to vote. They interviewed some of the kids after they had voted and the kids were so excited. They said they were going back to school and share their experiences with their younger friends. The reporter said there had not been one complaint from anyone.

Earlier today Fox tried to make something of this, but really there was nothing bad to be said.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Kilgore Trout's picture

I think they got the perfect poster boy for the Repukes as described by Blue Lensman tax-evading, unlicensed, delinquent, welfare fathers. Add self-aggrandizing as well as goes against his own self-interest in favor of the party and you have him down pat.

Floridiot's picture

...hiring illegals to go door to door for him to get out the vote, does he have anyone at all to help him? Or is this a manufactured campaign?

ysbaddaden's picture

Made in China?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

LibertyLover's picture
Why

Doesn't Cindy McCain do campaign stumps separately from her husband? Is she worried about what reporters might ask of her?

Didn't John Kerry's wife in 2004 at least make a few speeches here and there?

It's kinda creepy how Cindy is always lurking in the background. Or is she there to make sure Grampy doesn't wander off the stage?


Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.

pissed off patricia's picture

She chimes in once in a while to remind everyone her son is in Iraq and to express how angry she is that Obama voted against a funding bill for the troops. She usually follows that by saying she wishes Obama could walk in her shoes.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

ysbaddaden's picture

So does Obama if she loaned him her nylons and garters too.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Fanon's picture

Actually, he's got great legs. I bet he'd look great in her shoes.

shaggles's picture

Cindy McCain is a rich creep. I wonder what she said when her husband voted against a funding bill? Probably 'Good for you John!' I will say this for the McCains though, and for Palin, at least their kids are fighting in this crappy war. Unlike say Mitt Romney's sons or any of the other chicken hawk Republican's who think it's perfectly fine for someone elses kid to die fighting for oil and political one-ups-manship.

Ferrofluid's picture

Sent off to war to become a statistic and a purple campaign badge to worn by mommy dearest during her next campaign.
No wonder the expendable Track looked so scared at that RNC thing when it was announced he was off to Iraq, he knew he was being set up, Worth more as a dead statistic, than hanging around at home being arrested (and bailed by mommy) for whatever the latest meth game is up in smalltownville AK.

Mr. Dave's picture

That's what I love about the McCampaign -- one glorious train wreck after another. The hits just keep on coming.


"Culture is not your friend."

pissed off patricia's picture

The part of Joe the Plumber will now be played by Dick the Weed.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Blue Lensman's picture

You just insulted all dickweeds.

pissed off patricia's picture

I know.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

ysbaddaden's picture

Isn't dickweed when your weed's full of seeds?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Liberal AND Proud's picture

It's just getting sad now. Can someone please give that poor old man a ride home?

He asked for it.

He could have run a straight up campaign, and win or lose, he would have gained respect from the left and helped to heal the country.

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOO...he had to climb into the gutter and ask for a streetfight, and we were forced to kick the crap out of an old man.


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

Semi-hermit Bob's picture

L&P, I didn't mean to imply that he doesn't deserve to be ridiculed... but it's still getting sad. Even he knows that it's over. You can see it on his face.

ysbaddaden's picture

Is this the Defiance School Song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Floridiot's picture

Maybe this one?

Floridiot's picture
joesixpack's picture

Douche the bag. Anyone? Anyone?

I'm hear all week, folks. Be sure and tip your waitstaff.

pissed off patricia's picture

Is it true that next week Dumb the fu*ker will appear there?


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

rosepierre's picture

Joe 'bailed' on him....hmm, wonder if Letterman has him scheduled yet???

pissed off patricia's picture

Palin is speaking somewhere right now and it's on tv. The kids standing behind her were most likely bused in and it would appear they are being held hostage. The look on their faces says it all.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Big Boppa's picture

child abuse?


I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....

pissed off patricia's picture

The expression on the kids faces looked like they would rather be in jail than standing there.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Edwin's picture

Can we officially declare his campaign dead yet? How hurtin' is this? And ...I LOVE IT.


far left loon >.<

Liberal AND Proud's picture
POP

good lord...can't they...THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

pissed off patricia's picture

Yeah, they did think of the children when they couldn't find any adults they could force to attend.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

to let their inmates be used as RNC props at WcCain/Palin reich rallies, claiming it would be 'cruel and unusual' punishment...

And GOP sex offender types prefer young meat...

ysbaddaden's picture

When I was a kid in school what they refered to as getting pops was getting paddled.

Interestingly enough when a young attractive male vp was hired, all the girls wanted him to do it instead of the woman who normally handled them.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Liberal AND Proud's picture

Is it true that next week Dumb the fu*ker will appear there?

No. He's being held hostage in the White House.


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

pissed off patricia's picture

True. Sorry, I forgot. But he's soon to be sprung and then he could appear.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

ron's picture

Joe was stuck in a toilet he got himself into.

Jackie's picture

Call David Letterman he understands and can help John heal from being dissed by his best friend Joe the Plummer.

Edwin's picture

I'd love to see Bush in one of his quiet moments, around now. What went wrong? It does not compute.

Thinking about The Robot in Lost in Sapce, from "danger danger, warning," to "it does not compute", like he got doused with some juice from the hydroponic garden, and is shorting out. I like the visual.


far left loon >.<

bushisaliar's picture

my name is ross the plumber , and i am licensed[and unionized]and is why i live in a beautiful paid for home, can afford to go on long vacations , am retired and put every one in my family through college

and i voted today

all Dems , when we had local seats with only repubs i chose not to vote in those slots

ysbaddaden's picture

Don'tcha mean ...I chose not to vote in those sluts?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Bonkers's picture

I gotta say, wow, NICE SAVE!

/super snark


I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.

Edwin's picture

I wonder how many "C"-words McCain uses about Palin each day.

Cindy's gonna have to dump him. She has had her First Lady wardrobe in design for months. Inauguration Cindy, entering the White House Cindy, and lots of others. Maybe she'll "donate them to charity"???


far left loon >.<

me_over_here's picture

Cindy should take her millions, buy herself a replica of the White House kitted out with The Oval Office, Rose Garden, Lincoln Bedroom, the whole shebang. Then she can play at being First Lady like some fucked up Miss Haversham. McCain can ramble about it in his slippers and dressing gown playing pretendy president.

Sec_Humanist's picture

Marie Antoinette's faux-farm, Petit Hameau, 200 metres from the Versailles palace of the Sun King -- perfumed sheep and all?


"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.

rent a suite there and pretend to be first lady.

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/18-07...

Liberal AND Proud's picture

and see the expression on McCain's face when he next has to talk to Barack and say..."Congratulations, Mr. President"!!


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

It's getting clearer and clearer that not only Joe the Plumber has bailed on McSame. American will show him and his sidekick that we, too, have bailed on these two frauds.

ron's picture

Sara and Joe the plumber.

ysbaddaden's picture

She's already having fantasies about his plunger.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

shaggles's picture

Sounds like the next installment of Who's Nailin' Palin.

Ferrofluid's picture

it would be awful listening to her screech, while....

Ferrofluid's picture

"oh John, you are back early, meet Joe the Plumber..."

how else could silver spooned John know of or meet up with plastic spooned 'Joe' Keating...

Liberal AND Proud's picture

I totally agree with you. I have empathy for him, he is a person,...but I have no sympathy.

He created the atmosphere that led to his now potentially being totally humiliated.

He always sold himself as an honorable man, and he has shown himself to be dishonorable.

I will NEVER forget the "THAT ONE" comment. Never. It was callous and uncalled for...and was a final indication of the true nature of this man.


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

pissed off patricia's picture

Everything that has happened to McCain's campaign is the result of McCain's decisions. If he makes nothing but bad decisions in his campaign, what would he do in the white house?


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

odanny's picture

He'd tun the country the way he ran his campaign. Man, then we'd all be "Joe the fake Plumber" for 4 years. The horror! Get that man the next bus home, the Straight Talk Express no longer has any room on it for poor John.


Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia

Blue Lensman's picture

McSame and Pal still have a bright future ahead of them. They could probably team up and make a nice family-friendly western like, "Mavericks in the Sage".

ysbaddaden's picture

That sounds like a sequel to Brokeback Mounting


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

pissed off patricia's picture

When I was waiting to vote last week there was a young black couple in front of me with a baby and a little boy who proudly announced to everyone that he was five years old. His dad asked him who he wanted to win. The little boy said, John McCain. His dad said, Are you kidding? The little boy said, Dad, I know how to push all your buttons.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Dyskolos's picture

...also a favorite media tactic of Dear Leader in North Korea.

FreeThought's picture

This is good... real good! Especially the freak sideshow in the background flogging the dead horse... pathetic.


Their homeworld was a place called Earth, located in an uninteresting part of the galaxy. They had an expression: pride goeth before a fall. Their pride was their undoing. I know. I was there....They did not listen, of course. Arrogant men never do.

P.K. McBurroughs's picture

Thank GOD for Joe the sorta-Plumber! If not for honest, hardworking, country western singing, tax-evading regular Joes like him and his publicist, how else would we have discovered Obama's nefarious plan to seize our collective wealth and spread it around like peanut butter? He's going to take it from us, and give it right back to---you guessed it!---US.

Fiendish!

Soon we'll all long for the days when our collective wealth repeatedly bailed out the failed and wreckless schemes of the obscenely rich and powerful---just like God intended it.

Good day.

shaggles's picture

Maybe he'll go on tour with the Dixie Chicks. :)

...as stupid as the idiot we now have in the White House for the next four years.

God, that sends a shivver down my spine.

Liberal AND Proud's picture

Time to turn up the heat. Talk to friends. Spread the word and of course...VOTE!

It's the homestretch. We have to win...and win HUGE. Leave no doubt. The GOP needs to be humiliated. The bullies in the GOP will react like all bullies do. They will lose interest...and go away. Bullies don't fight for the long haul, they don't have the convictions to do it. Most of the GOP rank and file is made up of front runners that wanted to run with the lead back. Once they're beaten back, then perhaps more moderate elements of the GOP can regain control, and bring civility to our politics.

I am not asking for...nor do I want...the GOP to become Democratic-lite. Opposition is good. Honest disagreement and discussion is good. It's good for people, it's good for the country.


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

Shitt Romney's picture

joe the sycophant moron was hiding under podium sucking mcshitstain's wrinkled balls

Liberal AND Proud's picture

Billboard
Puppet Show
John McCain

McCain - "What the hell is that!?!?!"
Handler- "Geeez, if I told them once...I've told them a thousand times..it's John McCain and Puppet Show!'

With apologies to Rob Reiner!


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

Edwin's picture

Yet another McCain flip-flop. What ever happened to, "We are all Georgians now?"


far left loon >.<

Gretchen the aspiring elitist's picture

I doubt it would be - the staff and administration are almost 100% dems. I'd be pretty pissed off if my bosses told me I had to spend most of my work day taking kids to see McCain. I'm not sure I'd be able to keep my profanity in check and I know darned well I couldn't take hearing the grating voice of Caribou Barbie.

I'm not sure how the laws work in OH but I'm sure most districts in MI would not take the opportunity to turn a political stop into a field trip. Almost all in my area have bans on using news channels in the classroom until after the election hoopla is over to avoid any accusations of teaching the kids to favor one party over the other. We can't touch the topic unless it is an approved, bi-partisan curricular approach.

Ferrofluid's picture

You can imagine some of the more lippy kids taunting the GOP rednecks with near silent Obama chants.
The bodycount and GOP arrest records would be interesting.

Floridiot's picture

Lurch finally showed up

shaggles's picture

Joe the Plumber might make enough money singing to finally have to worry about that Obama tax increase. I doubt it but it's probably a safer bet than him raking in $250 net from a business that currently grosses $100K.

Sec_Humanist's picture

Sounds like one of the Christo-fascist, Heritage, Liberty, Freedom chartered school set-ups that are inherently anti-secular and anti-democracy. Those poor children will spend a lifetime -- at least some of them -- trying to extract their lives from that hate-filled, religionist sectarianism.


"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.

Lizzy Bennet's picture

Ahhh...schadenfreude. It feels oh so good.

calgarylady's picture

That was yummy and delicious to watch. Priceless!

marie's picture

Guess this makes Ole Joe a real mavericky maverick himself. Welcome to the team of mavericks, Joe.

bateman's picture

Wow, we have two newspapers in Oklahoma City, dumb (Gaylord owned "Daily Oklahoman") and dumber.

As I've said before, the state of Oklahoma is completely insane with conservative whack-jobs.

cheesesauce's picture

All of those Nichols Hills debutantes can't wait until Joe comes. He ain't the plumber, he's the plumber man's son. And he'll lay pipe for ya baby 'til the plumber man comes.

bateman's picture

There's a clogged toilet at Cafe Nova.

Pericles's picture

"Maybe Joe was in the studio recording his new album?"

No, my guess is Joe the Plumber was out behind the bleachers signing some RACKS, and taking fan pictures with groupies when McCain called on him.

And yeah, you can be sure you're a failure as a right wing talking head when Sheppard Smith takes the piss out of you. To use a football analogy, that's sort of like when a lineman takes out his own quarterback.

bamboozled's picture

Recording "Drill, Baby, Drill" with Toby Keith.

Hiding from the "liberal elite" media.

Taking his plumber registration test.

Shining his head.

Praying to the baby Jesus for guidance.

Beating his wife.

Looking up the word "Marxist" in the dictionary.

Choking on his own vomit from mixing prescription pain-killers with too much Jim Beam.

Agreeing with every word Rush Limbaugh says.

Flying his new Lear jet that was a gift from his Keating 5 relative.

Beating his children.

Standing in line for early voting.

Surprising his wife with a nice souffle and flowers he picked himself.

Auditioning to be the new Mr. Clean for Johnson & Johnson.

Preparing for his first vice presidential debate on the Palin/Plumber ticket.

Beating his dog.

Having an introspective moment while gazing into an absolutely delightful glass of Shiraz.

On the crapper.

Being arrested for tax-evasion.

And the number one place Joe the Plumber could be right now?

Underneath Cindy's dress.

abarts's picture

So, McCain didn't know where 'Joe' was. Does McCain know where HE himself is?!

ysbaddaden's picture

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

DemoChristian's picture

I once held a Master's Plumbing License. This is a busy season for plumbers.

"Joe" seems to be at McCain rallies alot instead of working his $40,000/year job.

Is he paid by the McCain campaign? How much? Does anyone know?


The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Rduke's picture

...He has done it before.

Seriously.

It is part of the scheme.

bigironal's picture

Joe had other things to do today such as repairing a plumbing job that he fucked up for a customer , a few days ago! Go get'em Joe , you sorry ass excuse for a human being,much less, a man!By the way, Useless, why aren't you working?I bet your work habits(or lack of)had a bit to do with your divorce(s)!

k1mgy's picture

If they had bussed my child to support that hack they'd have kidnapping charges pressed.

If not that, a hell of a lawsuit.

Using public funds to prop up a dying campaign?

There ought to be a law.

Actually, if anyone cares to note, there is one.

Book 'em, Dan-0.

Dana's picture

Joe was at the local gay strip club doing his Jeff Gannon impersonation.


Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley

albabe's picture

Just in case anyone is interested... this is the site of this laughable Amateur Right Wing Pundit:

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/joe...

His comment are pretty funny. I've never seen so many idiot Rush-sucking opinions in one place.


~albabe (The Writer/Artist Formally Known As Al Gordon)

http://www.comicon.com/gordon/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gordon

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