Posted on 02/14/2010 5:39:29 AM PST by tlb
Pennsylvania Public Radio's Scott Detrow reports from a conservative event in Harrisburg:
Wurzelbacher touched on several different points during his speech, and many of them were surprising. He said he doesnt support Sarah Palin anymore. Why? Because shes backing John McCains re-election effort. John McCain is no public servant, he told the room, calling the 2008 Republican nominee a career politician.
I pointed out hed just be plain old Sam Wurzelbacher of Ohio Joe the Plumber wouldnt exist without McCain. His response was blunt. I dont owe him s. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.
Wurzelbacher said, McCain was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.
I wonder how long he will be calling himself "Joe the Plumber", like Dick the Bruiser.
I dont owe him s. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.
Yeah, so instead of staying at home, taking care of my kids, and getting back to a normal life, I am flying around like a rock star to Tea Parties across America.
Sorry Joe, no comparison between you and Sarah!
Someone’s worried about their 15 minutes being used up....
Joe the plummer is a guy who said something on camera America agreed with. He’s a non-entity to me. Never saw him as anything other than a plummer.
In fact, I look at him a little as the Cindy Sheehan of the Right.
Without McCain (and I don’t like McCain) Joe the Plumber would just be the local plumber.......probably selling butt-spackle........
The era of reality television - it’s all about me (Joe)!
When authentic people are seduced by hype and cameras...the love affair eventually ends..........bitterly!
So happy - not to be a silly-brity’ or a sell-ebrity;)
Joe the Plumber—not all he was cracked up to be!
Time to dump McNasty and go with JD Hayworth.
Joe feels the same exact way I do about McCain. He must be defeated in the primaries.
Joe’s is the type of gut reaction that many conservatives have to McCain and right or wrong some are going to react negatively to Palin’s campaigning for him.
It’s Joe’s opinion to express and he’ll just have to take his lumps when people don’t like what they hear.
I agree that McCain is no public servant. I agree that JtP doesn’t owe McCain s***. I disagree that McCain screwed up his life. I agree that McCain used him—that’s politics.
I was just going to type: Joe sounds like more than a few Freepers.
You're kidding, right? I didn't know McCain controlled the media.
BTW, Joe didn't "say" anything. He asked a question and it was Obama's answer that caused the ruckus. McCain did try use him but as usual McCain failed to do it properly.
I met and spoke with Joe the Plumber. He is a bright guy who can speak to a number of issues. I know he understands the immigration issue better than most politicians I have met, including what an amnesty is and what we should do about the illegal immigration issue.
I’ve become a very critical reader/listener of the news
and other reports from the Politico/NYT/Alphabet networks etc.
That being said, just what did Joe say that many of us wouldn’t
say? I too don’t think McCain should run. He should just
fade into the sunset gracefully but his ego wont let him.
Joe WAS just a campaign stop news blurb nothing more than
a voice of the common man.
Palin has yet to distance herself from McCain on the amnesty issue or to recant her Univision interview. It is her position on this issue that I am concerned about more than her endorsement of McCain over a true conservative, JD Hayworth.
Well, all I know is that I cannot and will not vote for anyone who supports Juan McLame after his pathetic run for the White Hut. Sarah has no business out in Arizona trying to prop up this sorry loser, McLame. Why is she doing this, when there are other candidates running for that office that most conservatives would agree that they would be a better pick. Why is she doing this? Sarah why? You had so much promise. Why support Juan? Just don’t campaign for anyone if it can’t be for the conservative. She fell half way down my opinion ladder already.
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