Joe the Plumber: McCain 'appalled me'

Politico ^ | 12/9/08 | ANDY BARR

[redk]

Joe Wurzelbacher lashed out at former GOP presidential nominee John McCain Tuesday, the man who made Wurzelbacher famous as “Joe the Plumber.”

Wurzelbacher told conservative radio host Glenn Beck that he felt “dirty” after “being on the campaign trail and seeing some of the things that take place.”

[John123]

To clarify this thread... Joe the Plumber was appalled with McCain’s answers to the $700 billion bailout... He didn’t say what Sarah thought...

[SolidWood]

The Politico thinks this is bad news for us. LOL. It confirms what most Conservatives think. Palin is a diamond... McCain a political hack. Joe has seen it first hand.

[Garrisson Lee]

A plumber’s dirt washes off.

[Ann Archy]

McCain got to be the nominee because of OPEN PRIMARIES where DEMOCRATS can PICK OUR NOMINEE....this must STOP! This is how we got Bob Dole and McCain.

[rocksblues]

I also was going to stay home. Sarah got me to pull the RINO lever for the last time.

[Little Ray]

Well, yes.
Most of FR probably agreed with him. The only things that go us to vote for him were that Palin was wonderful, and Obama was much worse.

[nmh]

Yeah, nutless lost.

I wonder ... did they castrate him in Nam?

[Brett66]

Joe continues to be right.

[thesetruths]

I actually think most politicians are not the nicest people. Otherwise they wouldn’t survive.

[chemicalman]

When I voted, I held my finger over McCains name where only Palin’s name was exposed, then I pressed the button.

[9YearLurker]

Almost makes you wonder if a JoetheP has been posting here since November, 1998, or something.

[McGruff]

Well McCain is history and Sarah (and Joe) are the future.

[seekthetruth]

“Asked why he didn’t leave McCain’s campaign if he was “appalled” by the candidate, Wurzelbacher said, “honestly, because the thought of Barack Obama as president scares me even more.”

“Money quote. But you won’t hear it.”

I don’t agree. Joe was there supporting McCain/PALIN for the same reason many of us did. The thought of Obama in the White House was unthinkable! We worked to elect SARAH, and without her on the ticket Obama WOULD have had a landslide. Sarah will be back, and McCain is done running for President for sure! Sad thing is, he didn’t even Constitutionally qualify to run in the first place, right along with Obama!

[Irish Eyes]

McCain got to be the nominee because of OPEN PRIMARIES where DEMOCRATS can PICK OUR NOMINEE....this must STOP! This is how we got Bob Dole and McCain.

I agree...How do we close them ? Is it up to the Republican Party or the individual states?

[exit82]

Like Sarah, Joe is the real deal also.

I was against McCain until Sarah came along. I voted for McCain to give Sarah a shot at the future.

McCain was just Obama-lite, but his term as Pres. would have bought time for Sarah to run and win in 2012.

[conservative cat]

I actually think most politicians are not the nicest people. Otherwise they wouldn’t survive.

My dad always says, "All politicians are crooked. You just have to vote for the least crooked."

[Nowhere Man]

I heard part of this on Glenn Beck today. Senator McCain is an honorable man, he has served this country well in the Vietnam War and suffered greatly for it. As a politician, he's gotten somethings wrong like his belief in human caused climate change, McCain/Feingold and so on, but overall he was a much better choice over Zero. He was not my first choice either in the primaries, I voted for Huckabee, by the time it got around to Pennsylvania, it was McCain or Huckabee.

Basically, he fought Zero using the Marquis of Queensbury rules while Zero fought a tough campaign along with the Ultimate Weapon and Shield called "THE RACE CARD." I think if McCain fought hard enough, there would have been a fair chance we might not be saddled with Zero today. One thing I agree with Chairman Mao on one saying from his "Little Red Book," "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." Zero fought it as a war, McCain not as much so. Palin did so and understood that but she was also at the whim of the McCain campaign. Personally, it should have been Palin/McCain but I digress. McCain was a wimp unfortunately. I'm not being mean to him but you cannot be a wimp in politics especially with Zero. Now we are saddled with Zero and he can do us damage. I do sympathize with Joe the Plumber, I'm "Chuck the Auto Parts guy." B-)

[editor-surveyor]

"What I want to know is what McCain said that was so appalling?"

'Clude me too!

What is Joe keeping secret? (or does he know?)

[Joe 6-pack]

[ari-freedom]

when I voted, I saw Obama’s name and voted for the one who had the best chance of beating him and that was mccain/palin.