Despite Being ‘Sick’ Of Talking About Joe The Plumber, Palin Mentions Him Six Times During Rally
Despite Being ‘Sick’ Of Talking About Joe The Plumber, Palin Mentions Him Six Times During Rally
During a campaign rally today in West Chester, OH today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), mentioned Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher by name six different times. Plain noted that he had called progressive tax policies “socialism” and said, “we’ve really got to hand it to Joe.” Watch it:
However, just last night, Palin said she was “sick” of talking about the now-famous plumber. During a fundraiser, Palin recalled how she had “begged” her speech writers not to make her talk about Wurzelbacher. The Trail reported Palin’s remarks:
PALIN: And I, I begged our speech writers, ‘Don’t make me say ‘Joe the Plumber,’ please, in any speeches. ‘And I was asked, ‘Just one time, just at this fundraiser?’ … Just make sure people understand that we know what Joe the Plumber was talking about when he was…saying, ‘Wait a minute, aren’t you going to take my money…and give it to somebody else who maybe hadn’t worked as hard as I have worked?’”
But as The Progress Report notes today, “the underlying premise that Wurzelbacher would face higher taxes under Obama is neither true nor typical of how the vast majority of small businesses would fare.” Wurzelbacher himself told CBS he now realizes he would receive a tax cut under an Obama tax plan.
Yesterday, Wurzelbacher said felt that he was being “used by the Republican Party as a pawn to make their point.” The McCain-Palin campaign, however, appears to be undeterred by Wurzelbacher’s comments.
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When will we be rid of this woman? When? She is poison!
October 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pmUmm, Sarah IcePrincess, we took that pawn four moves ago.
Check Mate. Bye Bye.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:53 pmThis dumb-phucking woman is one neuron short of a synapse.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pmJust make sure people understand that we know what Joe the Plumber was talking about when he was…saying, ‘Wait a minute, aren’t you going to take my money…and give it to somebody else who maybe hadn’t worked as hard as I have
worked?’”
And to those who work much harder for smaller wages, so it all evens out.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pmPlain (sic) noted that he had called progressive tax policies “socialism” and said, “we’ve really got to hand it to Joe.”
Yep. Doesn’t matter if he’s got his facts wrong, or if he doesn’t really have a plumber’s license or even if he owes back taxes himself.
As long as he buys into our overheated rhetoric, we’ve got to hand it to him.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pmLet’s not talk about Joe the Plumber because as Joe the Plumber says, we should talk about the real issues that affect Joe the Plumber….
I get better logic from a roomful of kindegarteners…
October 17th, 2008 at 2:55 pmMaybe Joe can connect up the plumbing in her head, or maybe her already did?
October 17th, 2008 at 2:55 pmVery well said, barfly.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:55 pmPALIN: And I, I begged our speech writers, ‘Don’t make me say ‘Joe the Plumber,’ please, in any speeches.
Sarah speech writer “if you don’t say what we want we will
October 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pmwaterboard you, so quit begging”
Perhaps Joe could help her with that septic rhetoric…
October 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pmSarah doesn’t mind being used as much as Joe does.
They should go on Jerry Springer and work it out.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pmtombaker, I can just see the Springer Headliner
Dumb ass crackers and their political wannbe hot mamas!
October 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pmNow we can add whining to the long list of her annoying personal habits.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pmHe really thinks that he should pay the same tax rate as oil companies?? Has anyone YET pointed out to Joe that we already have a progressive income tax policy???
October 17th, 2008 at 3:00 pmAnd from now on Governor Palin could you please refer to him as Joe the Unskilled Laborer since he’s not really a plumber.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:01 pmRumor has it that Sarah Palin is going to mother Jamie Lynn Spear’s child and will raise her as a muslim!
October 17th, 2008 at 3:02 pmtypo – second sentence!
another “gaffe”!
October 17th, 2008 at 3:02 pmWhat can we expect from a woman who says that the Alaska report investigating her abuse of power vindicated her.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pmShe read it differently than most of the country.
Any surprise ?!!
Her words no longer can be taken seriously as a VP candidate.
I’m seeing Palin, her husband, McCain, and Joe the plumber all linked arm in arm skipping down the yellow brick road. Except in this version, they all need the same thing… A big pile of brains to squeeze into their vacant skulls.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pmBy the Sarah standard of qualifications we are all plumbers
October 17th, 2008 at 3:07 pmbecause after we take a crap we flush the toilet.
Should Palin, G-d forbid, become president, will she BEG her advisers to give her the policies she thinks best. If so, she needs better BEGGING strategies because she does not seem to be very efficient.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pmPalin = Evita
October 17th, 2008 at 3:11 pmI guess when you are as intellectually challenged and incurious as Gov. Flailin, you have to just read the teleprompters and not do any ad-libbing. We all have seen the dangers of that.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pmWell, of course Palin doesn’t want to talk about ol’ Joe — that takes the spotlight off of the beauty queen runner up. She doesn’t want to share the stage with anyone. In her mind, this is all her show, and the whispers that, should (???) they fail in (stealing) this election, she’ll be the frontrunner in the next one make her all fuzzy inside. She can wait 4 more years before ushering in the rapture with a little nuclear enticement.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pmOne of McCain’s talking heads just said something stupid like if a small business owner had to pay higher taxes he’d have to fire and employee. By doing that he’d increase his profits and have to pay even higher taxes. And to stop paying taxes he could hire somebody else and have more receipts but also more expenses and still not pay more taxes. Apparently not one Republican spokesperson understands anything about small business.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm“Plain noted that he had called progressive tax policies “socialism” and said, “we’ve really got to hand it to Joe.”
I wonder what Joe thinks about the “Public Financing” that McCain took to fund his campaign and whines about Obama not choosing?
Why should we evil “Socialists” be forced to pay for a campaign that is running against our policies?
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s just a point to make anytime a Right-Winger starts spouting off about “TEH EVOLS OF SOSHiLIZM” and how only John McCain can “save” us from it.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pmWhat’s worse — she expects to be the POTUS (come on, NO ONE thinks McCain would survive the whole thing) — but she has to BEG her speechwriters not to put something in. Hello? Who pays them? Are they HER boss? And why can’t she just not mention it at all?
T O O L.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pmGotta wonder which speechwriters she was referring to?
Machiavelli? Or perhaps Beelzebub.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pmSarah Boop is jealous Joe the Plammer is getting the headlines and not her. Now Sarah would never speaks to the press will snick in on SNL to get some attention. She might even go on Letterman if she is allowed to direct the questions. Sarah’s star is fading and she is no longer the favor of the month. Sarah will be like the person who won the first American Idol or Kentucky Derby do you remember who they are today?
October 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pmshe has to BEG her speechwriters not to put something in
Good point. She can order her Secret Service detail to keep reporters from questioning her rally attendees — which is illegal. But she has to beg her speechwriters to change her script — which is purely a matter of personal preference.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pmJoe the Plumber feels used by the Republicans? Well, that’s what you get when you decide to jump into the swamp with them. They will use you and then they will lose you.
I still firmly believe it was all a setup and “Joe” is coming to regret his decision to be a stooge for the Right.
Too bad so sad Joe. You made your bed and now you need to lie in it.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:26 pmShe’s a race-bating loon. Did you see the Al Jazeera video of Palin’s rally in eastern Ohio? Check it out.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:28 pmshe has to BEG her speechwriters not to put something in
perhaps the beauty pageant runner up has another trick up her sleeze, er sleeve to beg with?
October 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pmShayne Says:
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One of McCain’s talking heads just said something stupid like if a small business owner had to pay higher taxes he’d have to fire and employee. By doing that he’d increase his profits and have to pay even higher taxes. And to stop paying taxes he could hire somebody else and have more receipts but also more expenses and still not pay more taxes. Apparently not one Republican spokesperson understands anything about small business.
Thanks for the headach Shayne.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pmInterestingly enough, last night on CNN when they interviewed “Joe the plumber” he pretty much sounded like a typical republican base voter-going on how America is the greatest place on earth since even homeless people have cellphones. Seems like “joe six pack” has finally picked up on the fact that REPUBLICANS ARE TOXIC FOR AMERICA
October 17th, 2008 at 3:34 pmShayne ~ Of course the real answer is:
The small business owner fires his/herself and hires someone who actually knows how to run the damned company.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:36 pmI take a vow: I will not read one more thing this idiot in heels says from now til election day. It is gas-baggery, it is bullsh*t, and she reeks of it.
Enough is enough. This woman has no contribution to make to this election anymore. I’m over it.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:37 pmBible Spice has never met a GOP talking point she didn’t like ………..
or felt she over-used.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:37 pmI am worried by the pattern in the media in the days since the last debate. McCain’s camp is AGAIN winning the news cycle.
Am I the only one ’round here that feels like Obama is letting up again on the offense and he’s gone back to the defensive posture while his message is not able to breakthrough the noise of campaign tactics, Joe the plumer, ACORN, Ayers and polls?
This is EXACTLY what the McCain campaign wants to happen … It is dangerous territory.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pmSeriously…does anyone other than the 23%er mouth breathers take this wench seriously? for real.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pmYesterday, Wurzelbacher said felt that he was being “used by the Republican Party as a pawn to make their point.”
When you lie down with dogs , you end up getting fleas ……
October 17th, 2008 at 3:41 pmIn the interests of saving time, Shayne, I cherry-picked the necessary elements from your comment.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:41 pmAm I the only one ’round here that feels like Obama is letting up again on the offense and he’s gone back to the defensive posture
I can appreciate your concern about this. However, here is what is rolling out today that runs counter to that:
1) his campaign is making a legal argument to tie the current “vote fraud” court manuevers to the DOJ attorney firings investigation — this needs to happen since both are part of the same voter suppression tactics of the GOP
2) major ad push on the McCain plan to cut $890 million out of Medicare without a plan to protect recipients, provider choice, etc.
The way this campaign has been run up to this point makes me confident that Obama has an actual game plan to press his message and take McNumbNuts off-message consistently between now and November 4. This is the “fourth quarter” . . . and he is going to “bring it” at the same time that Unstable and Unable are running on empty.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pmPlain noted that he had called progressive tax policies “socialism” and said, “we’ve really got to hand it to Joe.”
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Um…does this mean that Palin agrees with Joe the Plumber on progressive tax policies? Does this mean she opposes the progressive tax (or favors “socialism”)? Does this mean she wants a flat tax? Does McCain share this view?
This is the sort of thing that begs for further questions. Why is nobody asking them of Palin? Or of McCain? Or do even the media just accept this as mindless blathering on Palin’s part?
October 17th, 2008 at 3:49 pmJust another demonstration that Bible Spice neither hears nor comprehends the words that are programed to come out of her mouth. If her pastor or hubby told her to say the sky is orange? She would do so with vigor and then deny the statements if anyone is actually allowed to question her.
I have seen no indication that she has ever arrived at her own conclusion, about anything, based on an examination of the pertinent facts. She’s a doll with a tape recorder in her head.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pmWHoa, whoa, whoa, “progressive tax, flat tax, socialism” What are you trying to do make her head explode?
October 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pmWhat do a Plumber and a Bimbo both have in-common?
That they were Republican heroes for a few minutes, then they fell harder than the Dow during a live Bush speech after they opened their mouths.
McCain sure has a green thumb for turd blossoms!
October 17th, 2008 at 3:56 pmShe’s sick of talking about Joe the Plumber (whose name is not really Joe and who is not really a plumber) and we are sick to death of talking about her.
The only reason she’s an issue is that she is a literal heartbeat away from the POTUS if Blinky makes it that far and a certified nutcase–Ditch the B*tch
October 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pmA few gems by Franklin Roosevelt
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
When did Republicans become such small petty and greedy people?
October 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pmRUCerious Says:
she has to BEG her speechwriters not to put something in
perhaps the beauty pageant runner up has another trick up her sleeze, er sleeve to beg with?
It’s those tricky syllables in “plumber” that make her all dizzy on stage.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pmMcCain 24+ hours ago: “The real winner last night was Joe the Plumber!”
McCain now: “Joe…I screwed up.”
October 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pmAll that is expected of us is to burn up our energy arguing about why people who can’t speak in complete sentences should be allowed to be commander and chief of our armed forces.
OMG! We’ve got that now
October 17th, 2008 at 4:28 pmSarah goes into a store and orders a moon pie and a glass of milk.
The proprietor exlaims ‘you must be sarah palin!’
Sarah says ‘how did you know that just from me ordering a moon pie and a glass of milk?’
Sarah: “If I ordered a whtie russian would you think I was from Russia?”
Prop: “no”
Sarah: “If I ordered a Marguarita would you think I was from Mexico?”
Prop: “no”
Sarah: “So how do you know who I am based on my order of a moon pie and a glass of milk?”
Prop: “Cuz this is a hardware store”
Progressive Jazz: (yes that’s me on the piano)
October 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pmhttp://ere.digi-one.com
Old Joe is a typical republican self-made man, don’tcha know?
October 17th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Palin is a bigoted, racist, ignorant loser. She is the most frightening Repub ever, and that is truly saying a lot. She is stupid, ignorant, hateful, vengeful, horrifically partisan, dishonest, and — did I mention hateful??
October 17th, 2008 at 4:44 pmPalin is a disgrace to the U.S. & its constitution.
I’ve been compiling a list, dasm.
Bible Spice is, to any objective observer, is fundamentally: dishonest, bigoted, ignorant, dogmatic, vindictive, petty, dishonorable, reckless, partisan, primitive, delusional, aggressive and incurious.
All of these traits are well documented, her public record reads like a bad fantasy novel, and any one of those is disqualifying in my estimation.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:50 pmOh, wait- I forgot to repeat & highlight “STUPID” – Palin is without doubt the most clueless, info-lacking, Repub of all time, and that’s really saying a lot. When this vote is over, I expect Alaskans to trash & burn this bigoted, stalking, uninformed, non-reader. She is such a loser. McCain– you say she was definitely your “first choice”?? Then you are more ignorant & dumb than we ever thought. You are no leader, not presidential, not understanding nor thoughtful, if you think Palin has any VP or P understanding. She is so very, very stupid. You expose yourself as an ignorant, incoherent, hateful, buffoon. Which at least is an honest depiction of what you are.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:53 pmpete Says:
Hey, I like you & what you say. She’s a witch. (Guess that wasn’t cast out!!)
October 17th, 2008 at 4:55 pmThis fake “joe” thing is being used by mcchimpy’s campaign because they never had anything to talk about but:
I know what the problem is and what to do, no details
More lies about Sen. Obama
Wright
mcchimpy telling Sen. Obama what to do
plain lies
Ayres
Oh look butterflies!
October 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pmFeh. Methinks the “lady” doth protest too much.
*eyeroll*
October 17th, 2008 at 5:03 pmdasm, I agree on the “itch” part but I’m seeing a different letter before the “i”.
I’ve only met one self-professed witch. She was a little wacky but, she could speak an actual human language and often made sense.
October 17th, 2008 at 5:03 pmBut she “loves to visit the Pro-American part of the country.”
Which parts of the country are not pro-American?
Her sharing of the ticket with McCain is cited among the reasons that major papers have endorsed Obama — McCain’s judgment is impaired, partisan, and threatening.
October 17th, 2008 at 5:55 pmI don’t know about Joe the Plumber but I sure an sick of hearing about Sarah Palin. Tale a hike, dimwit!
October 17th, 2008 at 6:44 pmI’m also annoyed by the idea that people who are rich have all worked harder than people who are poor. I think the truth is a bit more complicated than that.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:07 pmBut she “loves to visit the Pro-American part of the country.”
Which parts of the country are not pro-American?
Probably those icky urban parts, where lots of the people look like foreigners to her eyes.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:46 amWith the Dems’ propensity to grab defeat from the jaws of victory, could it be beginning to happen …again? Looks like it’s a habit that’s hard to break!
To all you puffed-up Dems., the fat lady ain’t singing yet…we haven’t heard any arias!
Heck, do I see the polls tightening…yet again?
I’m not even a registered Rep. and I’m gonna be dragging every pal, relative and next door neighbor to the polls. Let’s see if your “huge organization of Obama election fraud ground-staff can come close to matching the unstoppable force when EVERY Rep. does that, which they surely would, considering the anger you Dems. and your beloved lib. media have aroused!
When push comes to shove, the sheer thought that this country could be run by an extreme leftist Prez., and both the House and Senate will send shudders down every independent spine when they’re standing before the ballot box!
Consider this report:
James Pethokoukis
U.S. News and World Report
October 16, 2008
“A while back I chatted with a University of Chicago professor who was a frequent lunch companion of Obama’s. This professor said that Obama was as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for president of the United States.”
Obama himself told Joe the Pumbler that he intends to “spread the wealth around”. That’s as Marxist as it gets! Scary!!!
All this is coming down to is for Americans and Joe the Plumbers to decide whether to vote the “Talker” Obama or the “Doer” McCain. It’s easy to talk the talk, but can the Big O walk the walk?
October 18th, 2008 at 11:21 am“The Plumber’s Crack Heard Round the World”
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