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"This guy is amazing. If only we could vote for him for President. He gets it better than McCain does."

YES! Feed Basic American Values populism!

My Dad was a plumber with an 8th grade education, and he understood better than 95% of the population what makes our country tick. He would have loved Joe.

My uncle Lloyd was a plumber in Toledo, Ohio. He started his day carrying a US mailbag on a route that he walked for five or six hours every day. In the afternoon and evenings, he kept appointments fixing his neighbor’s toilets and drains.

This is such a huge "tell" about what liberals and conservatives actually think about the middle class. Liberals really believe the "What's The Matter With Kansas" hooey that middle class Americans are falling behind and are just sitting on their asses waiting for bigger checks from the government. They believe that giving middle class Americans a few more bucks that they have confiscated from "the rich" will actually "trickle up" and produce economic growth as the middle class folks spend more of that money at Walmart or wherever the lumpen proletariat shop.

Conservatives believe what Joe the Plumber believes. We know that no society ever taxed and spent its way to prosperity. We know that middle class Americans just want to be able to keep more of what they earn through their own hard work. We know that they do not expect more government handouts and they understand that more handouts equals more dependency and laziness, which does not grow an economy.

Obama is running a brazen campaign to buy votes with more government handouts. I have a feeling he and his pals are going to find out the hard way that isn't what Middle Class America is all about.