Posted on 10/19/2008 7:17:43 PM PDT by mathwhizz
Joe the Plumber, meet Ed the Dairyman.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke to a crowd of about 10,000 supporters Sunday in a Roswell airplane hangar, not only making a reference to Joe the Plumber, but alluding several times to "Ed the Dairyman" after seeing someone in the crowd holding a sign identifying himself that way.
She warned voters about Democratic plans to raise taxes "on America's hard-working families and our small businesses and a lot of folks just like Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairyman out there."
Joe Wurzelbacher, a plumber from Holland, Ohio, became a media sensation last week when Republican presidential candidate John McCain referred to "Joe the Plumber" several times during a debate with Democrat Barack Obama.
Palin challenged the tax plan advocated by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, which she warned would expand government and "destroy jobs" by redistributing wealth.
"Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth. Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic," Palin said. "But Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairyman, I believe they think it sounds more like socialism.
"Friends, now is no time to experiment with socialism," she told the cheering crowd.
(Excerpt) Read more at ap.google.com ...
Good! It's about dammed time we defined this choice for what it is! A national referendum on Socialism.
Lord, I love this woman and her bluntness.
SHE should have been the A-4 pilot..!
Does McCain want to win????
He needs to do the same as Palin here....
I really hope Palin sticks around in 2012....
She looked like a natural last night on SNL....
I wish she would have said that before McCain voted for the Bail Out Bill.
Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth. Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic,
Great Line. Just needs to be a little more generic
“Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth and Joe Biden calls it patriotism but everywhere I go in the country everyday hard working Americans call it socialism”
Then remind people of former socialist nations like Georgia. Use a line from MLK (In essence):
The thing to remember about socialist nations is the destruction it brings upon its people; whether it be in Georgia, Ukraine or Belarus the cry is always the same, “We want to be free”
AP says 10k. I wonder how many were really there? Anybody have a first hand report?
Hmmm...it has been suggested that people take plungers to rallies, but I think a more powerful statement would be for each person to take a sign bearing their name and occupation: "Tom, the electrician", "Sue, the teacher", "Bill, the contractor", "Barb, the hairdresser", etc.
I think that would send a powerful populist message that the GOP consists of the commonplace people you see and deal with day in and day.
BUT, then I realized that all that money would be taxed so bad to pay for all of Yo's social give-a-way programs, I'd wind up in the hole.
I got to check this Ed dude out.
People already show up at Obama rallies with their signs; Bill the Terrorist, Jerimiah the Racist, George the Communist, Resco the Criminal, Bill the Abortionist etc. etc. etc. They just don’t display their signs to everyone.
Don’t forget “Frank the Pervert Poet.”
***Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke to a crowd of about 10,000 supporters Sunday in a Roswell airplane hangar,***
Was that at the old Waker AFB? I spent many a day in that hanger. that is where the “aliens” from the “crash” were taken.
Waker AFB+ WALKER AFB
btt
McCain had a few signs like that at today’s OH rally - keep it coming, folks, and drill, baby, drill, that BO socialist agenda into the ground.
If I had time I’d make up an alphabetical list and rent signs:
Bob the barber
Connie the custodian
Dave the dishwasher
etc.
I would shoot to make $275K/yr...oh, never mind - I’ll get Joe’s opinion first.
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