Posted on 12/09/2008 3:43:31 PM PST by 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.”
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I mean was Mitt was stupid?
Ignorant?
Didn't hire enough talent?
Doesn't know America and has lived his life in a cocoon?
What's the answerer with Mitt, accepting your notion of an evangelical Taliban?
Despite the time he was a POW McCain is a feckless, immoral and duplicitous man.
McCain - appalling
Palin - the real deal
Obama administration - most scary
Joe is one of us...
McCain is the reason that we now have Obama. McCain was Obama’s Trojan Horse.
Joe is one of us...
A summation that the National Republican Committee really needs to understand.
So Joe saw the underbelly of the beast, and didn’t like what he saw. No big surprise there. He was just a useful prop for the election campaign, to be discarded when no longer needed. His treatment by both sitting parties speaks volumes of what they think about average Americans. Look what happened to Gov. Palin. The first candidate in a long time to represent the views of a large percentage of Americans, and both parties threw her to the wolves. The message they’re sending is pretty clear, toe the line or you’re toast.
Yep, it was almost anticlimactic when we finally got FRed going.
Now we know why Palin went “rogue” on McCain...
Somebody posted earlier:
“When you run Mr McGoo versus Wil Smith, guess who’s going to win?”
I knew that the McCain campaign was being run by elitists when Tito the builder hit the scene (really, i knew earlier but this was the final straw). After his grilling the reporters, they put him on the stage at a rally in a clownish builder-suit (hard hat, orange safety vest...). they made him look like one of the village people, IMO.
There was only one conceivable reason for a conservative candidate to suspend his campaign and return to the Senate floor.
It was to make a principled argument against the use of taxpayer dollars to bail out corrupt financial institutions and cover-up government mis-management.
Had he done so, he would've carried the day legislatively. And McCain would be president-elect today.
Alas, McCain failed to take this route. Because, just as we suspected -- after McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy -- he is not a conservative. He is a mere political opportunist, that's all.
John, I respect your service. But you would've made a rotten president (though better than Obama).
Lets see, you start out by holding your first two primaries in IA and NH, both states that went Dem...
The only reason I can think of why McCain would be a better president than Obama is the leadership and managerial abilities of his vice president.
I could have sworn I saw Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton yesterday.
Or was that mug Bob Rubin's?
“Sarah Palin is absolutely the real deal.” That’s exactly what I think too. In all the political corruption, cynicism, and “spin,” Sarah stands out as authentic. I trust her honesty and I trust her instincts.
I wholeheartly agree with your comment. I got into it with an Evangelical friend of mine when I called out the Huckster about throwing his votes to McCain. “Christian bigotry” (and I am a Christian myself) will stop Romney from gaining the momentum he has building and we are going to get stuck with McCain and sure enough thats exactly what happened.
“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’m not so sure this is the case. I think McCain was running against a historically weak field in the primaries. The only other serious contenders were Romney and Huckabee, who basically represented the two wings of the Republican party—country clubbers and social conservatives, respectively. Social conservatives hated Romney, the country-clubbers hated Huck, so McCain emerged as the apparent compromise. Nobody loved him, but a big chunk of the party thought they could live with him, and voters in general respected his military service. I think there was also a sense in some circles that it was McCain’s “turn,” for what that’s worth—and most of my country-clubby relatives felt good about his chances in a race against Hillary, who they were convinced would be the Democrat candidate. The others—Tancredo, Hunter, Thompson and Thompson—got off to fatally slow starts and never really had a chance. Ron Paul had some potential, IMO, but needed to win big in one of the early primaries if donors and the media were going to take him seriously.
Unfortunately the RATS have found the golden noose for the pubs and there ain’t nothing NO ONE can do...sigh. Those states are infiltrated with evil liberal judges and RATS who will continue to manipulate our primary and stick us with the worse republican candidate...double sigh!
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