Joe the Plumber won’t run for office: “You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
Joe the Plumber won’t run for office: “You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
Last year at the height of his “fame,” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — aka “Joe the Plumber” — said that he was considering a run for public office. “I’d be up for it,” he said. Excited fans even set up a “Draft Joe the Plumber” site. But in a new interview with WorldNetDaily, Wurzelbacher said that he now isn’t planning to run because God doesn’t want him to:
Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, “I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
He continued, “I believe he’s gotten me on this grassroots movement. If I can encourage leaders to step up, that’s what I would like to do. That’s a heavy role. That’s something I don’t know if I am prepared to do yet.”
But Wurzelbacher said he will keep that door open if God ever calls him to be that leader.
Right now, Wurzelbacher is preparing to participate in the upcoming tea parties.
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July 1st, 2009 at 10:43 amYou know that you have created God in your own image when he wants everything that you want and hates everything and everyone that you hate.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:45 amSo how exactly does Joe the Plumber earn a living? Transportation to all these “tea parties” costs money. Someone is paying his bills and it can’t be him since he doesn’t have a job. Oh, maybe he is collecting disability from a health insurance company.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:46 amHe sounds exactly like my RW nutjob of an uncle who talks about talking to gawd as if it’s a telephone conversation. Gives me a major ick.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:46 amJoe and Jesus sweat pipes together.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:47 amI think Joe has been breathing too many sewer pipe fumes.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:47 amAnyone hearing God talking is certifiably insane.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:47 amOn piece of advice (Not)Joe the (unlicensed) plumber: stop confusing the voices in your head with the word of God. It’s probably just one of your other personalities playing a practical joke on yourself.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:50 amGawd will soon tell joe to invade the local hardware store after hours so he can detain the tools he needs to fix that toilet.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:50 amJoe is doing exactly what he is “prepared for” – being a prop. Dress him up, call him whatever name is useful to your cause, give him a few simple lines, and set him where you want him. Better than a billboard (if you are just trying a “sales job” rather than actually governing).
July 1st, 2009 at 10:51 amI’m surprised The Heavenly Father didn’t add a “duh!” to his pronouncement.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:52 amWhen is this guy’s fifteen minutes up?
July 1st, 2009 at 10:52 amTalking to God in Plumberese is of course literally translated as “on the toilet taking a shit”.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:53 amPatrioticLiberalChristian Says
July 1st, 2009 at 10:51 am
Better than a billboard (if you are just trying a “sales job” rather than actually governing).
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The GOP is far more about marketing than governing, anyway. The actual running of the office is left to the special interests — whoever has the most money.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:54 amThis is too funny. From the Draft Joe the Plumber website:
Wurzelbacher says rather being just one voice among 435 in Congress, he hopes to be more vocal and do more good with his watchdog group.
Because of the “unique position that I’ve been put in,” he said, he has decided he “might better serve my fellow man” with watchdog group.
Joe, if your watchdog starts talking to you, don’t listen to him.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:57 amAre you sure it wasn’t Caribou Barbie there, not Joe? If this contact was in the form of an email, it was probably her. After all, you are the competition also too you betcha.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:59 amI have a watchdog, an adorable Labrador who barks at any noise.
Can he join Joe’s watchdog group?
July 1st, 2009 at 11:00 amWatch him end up running eventually anyway. He’ll be the political equivalent of Lucifer.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:05 amAs opposed to the civilized debate equivalent of Lucifer, which he already is.
If you talk to God, you are religious, and there is nothing wrong with that. However, if God talks to you, you are insane and there is medication for that.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:06 amI talk to God all the time.
I beg Him constantly to save me from His followers…
July 1st, 2009 at 11:06 amGod probably said, “WTF?!?!?! Are you serious? Hell, no!”
July 1st, 2009 at 11:07 amHow embarrassing for the republics to keep trotting out this moron as one of the voices of the party. Whether or not one takes this a$$hole seriously should be the litmus test for sanity.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:07 amJoe the Plumber, Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, Bachmann…shouldn’t Republicans be thoroughly embarassed?
July 1st, 2009 at 11:07 amOK, we have to give this one to him. When most wingnuts talk to God, God says things like “of course you should run!” Even if they’re horrifically unqualified. Sarah Palin, for instance. George Bush for another. But even the Lord of Hosts who thought those were both GREAT ideas was still like “Hey Sam, why don’t you go do something a little more your speed, like get a job as a janitor or something?”
July 1st, 2009 at 11:08 amFunny, I had that same conversation and GOD said…pls tell that moron to shut the f**k up! And then we had margarita’s.
Someone needs to check Joe’s meds!
July 1st, 2009 at 11:09 amPoor Joe/Sam Dumas.
Did he ask for forgiveness for driving without a license all those years in Arizona?
July 1st, 2009 at 11:09 amhahahaha…..by “God”……he meant bank account.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:10 am
Joe should do gay porn.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:10 amJoe “the plant” Plumber. Another one who needs medication. God told him not to run for Congress, thank you… If Michele Bachmann does get her seat back, and Joe the Plumber in Congress, the ones who has an intelligent brain in their head might run to the hills, screaming…ARGH….
July 1st, 2009 at 11:10 amYou know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
So, like, God’s a valley girl?
July 1st, 2009 at 11:11 amYou know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
You know… Ted Bundy heard voices in his head too…
July 1st, 2009 at 11:12 amI ask for ThinkProgress to officially ban Joe from this website from now on.
He doesn’t want to be in politics. Let’s not drag him in kicking and screaming. Turn off the lights–he wants to check out of the motel. No need to drag his name into the spotlight ever again.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:12 amEverytime I see this retard, who is not Joe and is not a plumber, get face time I think that this is the typical teabagging moron.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:12 amActually, that quote should read “You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘Oh HELL No!’”
July 1st, 2009 at 11:17 amHey Joe/Sam that wasn’t God talking to you, it was the ever-fading voice of reason in your head. You know, the common sense part of your brain that you and most cancervatives have been stifling for years. Try listening to it more often.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:19 amGod on the other hand is still laughing at your stupidity and ignorance.
Maybe God can help with some plumbing, this Turd won’t flush.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:20 amWhen you hear “God” talk to you it’s called “schizophrenia”.
Joe there is no god, the magical invisible faerie in the sky does not exist, god was made up by acient goat herders.
Moron.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:22 amObviously, then, God is smart, which puts Him distinctly at odds with the knuckldragging base of the Republican Party.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:24 amRun Joe, run. Take all your money and run. Use your house to secure a loan for campaign funds just to get started. I’m sure your supporters will be throwing money at you in no time. You’re so awesome, what could go wrong?
July 1st, 2009 at 11:26 amThe prospect of this tax-dodging Wolf-in-plumber’s-clothing running for office scared me for just a second. I thought he’d be another person to whip the stupid/crazies into a violent frenzy.
But then I realized…
JoeSamuel is on the same level as them, if not lower. There’s no way he’d win a position above mayor in conservative, rural Ohio.
If you think he’d be a good candidate, you haven’t just scraped the bottom of the barrel; you’ve scraped through to the mildew in the linoleum grout underneath the barrel. And I didn’t need God to tell me that.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:27 amIt’s not so much that God “said” no — it’s the lightning bolt that God shoved up Joe’s ass that pretty much sent the message.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:29 amIf God had a toilet, He’d tell Joe, “Stick your head
July 1st, 2009 at 11:29 amin it!”
Sam was only telling half the story. Yes, God did tell Sam, like, “no.” But only after A LOT of laughing. All that rain we’ve been getting in the Northeast for the past 2 weeks? God’s tears of laughter, followed of course by tears of shame that even He, in His infinite wisdom, could create something that effing stupid.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:31 amWhat happened to God’s sense of humor? He used to pull some great practical jokes, like telling Pat Robertson to run for president.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:34 amthe ONLY draft that “Joe” deserves is one from the US Army.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:39 amShip his sorry ass to Iraq to die for Halliburton profits.
Poetic justice.
I seed Joe the not plumber has been talking to limpbaugh again. Actually I would see to see him run. With Repukes like him running even some of the 20 percenters would quit the party.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:45 amI suspect God also didn’t want Palin or McCain to be running the White House.
That didn’t stop them from trying to get elected.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:48 amLefty Liberal Says:
And their goes my hope for a Palin/Wurzelbacher ticket in 2012!
Yeah, like God never changes his mind… I’m still gonna hope for it. Audaciously so.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:49 amSo Joe’s a schizophrenic – not a big surprise. Hearing voices, eh Joe? Time to get on anti-psychotic meds.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:54 amJoe has always had this problem hearing voices. Remember when he was going to buy that plumbing company, and when the owner was asked, he said I didn’t know I was selling my company.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:58 amJoe, buddy, a little advice. That voice you hear is not God’s, it’s Todd Palin and his gang of radical snow mobilers having their way with you. Their voices filter through the date rape drug stupor.
God wouldn’t leave you with a sore ass like that now would he?
July 1st, 2009 at 11:58 amAsked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, “I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
Not only “No,” but “F uck no!”
July 1st, 2009 at 11:59 amBut Wurzelbacher said he will keep that door open if God ever calls him to be that leader.
GOD: Sure, Joseph, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can *snicker* and don’t worry, you’re always in my thoughts, and *heeheehee* I’m sure you’ll be a great leader *snort* some day.
(After hanging up the prayerphone)
GOD: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
July 1st, 2009 at 12:02 pmSaint Joe of Arc?
July 1st, 2009 at 12:02 pmSay it ain’t so Joe! What is with these morons on the right who always have to throw out there that “I’ve talked to God” as if they are some how more special than the rest of us.
Are we to believe that God really gives a damn whether Joe the Plumber or Michele Bachmann runs for congress or not? Or that God actually talked to George W. Bush and told him that attacking Iraq and slaughtering 150,000+ innocent human beings was the right thing to do?
Seriously, I think God has more important things to deal with in the universe than to give out advice. Those in politics who say “God told me to run” or “God told me to go to war” are no different than the axe murderer who after being caught said “God told me to hack that family to pieces”
This is an obvious strategy which only seems to be used by politicians on the religious right, the family “values” crowd, it’s a way of pandering to their gullible Christian constituents.
Candidate A: God told me to run for public office!
Christian Constituent: Well heck if Candidate A is good enough for the Lord, well gosh darn, Candidate A is good enough for me.
Something we will never hear from a right wing politician:
Politician: God told me to become an adulterer and have sex with my neighbors 17 year old daughter.
Or
Politician: God told me to receive cash under the table from a lobbyist.
Funny how God is always there to push them into politics but where is God when these morons say or do mean, hateful and stupid, sinful things?
July 1st, 2009 at 12:04 pmI guess I should read the comments before posting, ElBruce got there first. I should have known!! *blush*
July 1st, 2009 at 12:05 pmKeep talking, “Joe.”
You continue to be the best reason for reinforcing the separation of church and state.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:06 pmTo quote “Time Bandits,” God is the supreme being, he’s not entirely dim.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:08 pmBreaking News: Joe the plumber tells a reporter that he recently asked God if he should apply for a job as a brain surgeon and God said “Are you out of your f***ing mind!
July 1st, 2009 at 12:11 pmNext he’ll be selling “WWJTPD” bracelets on his website. Wondering where Joe or any of these other crackpots go to have their frequent conversations with God? Palin is now channeling the Lord and writing emails divinely dictated to her.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:19 pmIt’s one thing to say you talk to God, that’s fine, prayer has a variety of psychological benefits as a meditative focusing technique, and is a key component of most religions of any kind, in one form or another.
But when somebody comes back and can quote God’s response to them they just crossed a big clear line from appropriate religious practice into either schizophrenic or fraudulent.
The thing is, most Christians should know this, right? I mean most people aren’t schizo, so they know that God doesn’t speak to them when they pray. They might hope he would, but it never really happens in their experience. So why should they believe anyone else who claims that He does? The moment somebody tells you what God told them, they’re exposing themselves as a heretical user of religion, employing it only to fool others.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:19 pmNo AmericasBack it was most likely the devil who told George to attack Iraq and who told Joe no and Michele yes. God knows better then to put inept, half witted creations of his into positions of power.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:20 pmGod is just slow. He always shows up after a right-winger has been caught committing some atrocity. Then he feels bad for being late and tells them they are forgiven.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:20 pmDear God,
Thanks you!
-Mike.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:21 pmYou know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
So God talks like a like Valley Girl? Is He like stoopid or was that like Samuel’s like interpretation of like what God like said?
John McCain shoudl be brought up on charges for elevating this moron to the national stage and subjecting us all to his like rants.
PEACE
July 1st, 2009 at 12:24 pmSay it ain’t so, Joe!!!!!!!
Let me guess “God” was his advisers who told him that basically he will not be able to raise money and secondly, he cannot win?
July 1st, 2009 at 12:25 pmElBruce @ 74
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I agree!
I love when Oral Roberts told his congregation that if he didn’t raise $1 million, God would take him up to heaven. Um isn’t it the goal of every Christian to make it to heaven? Why would God give Roberts an ultimatum especially using money?
Or last weekend, I viewed parts of “The Jack Van Impe” comedy show where he told his brainwashed viewers that God spoke to him and told him to continue selling his DVD “The New World Order” for two more weeks? God really told you that Jack, really!?! LMAO!
July 1st, 2009 at 12:28 pmSam Jo the unlicensed plumber’s helper is dyslexic, when he says talking to God, he is actually referring to his Dog.
Woof woof
July 1st, 2009 at 12:30 pmI think God is just telling him to go back to school and get the plumber’s license.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:32 pmDid you ask him/her for forgiveness when you told her/him that you were going lie and say that he told you not to run for office? Did you ask him/her about poverty, illness, cures for diseases? Did you talk to her/him about all of the people who dont have health insurance and how they wouldn’t need it if he/she would just listen to those prayers? Did you at least ask her/him could you speak to his Son, Elvis, Farrah, Mike, Ronald Reagan?
No?
STFU, Loser.
RIP
July 1st, 2009 at 12:34 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 In (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Did he talk to God, or did he really just get an email from Sara Palin?
July 1st, 2009 at 12:35 pmA exclusive peak into chaotic life of God:
God is stressed out and over worked as he looks down on the planet Earth and sees global warming, corruption, war, pestilence, death, murder, adultery, increased immorality engulfing his beloved planet. He is ragged from going back and fourth putting out all the fires that mankind creates.
As he paces across the clouds, deep in thought on how to fix a current coming slaughter in Africa, he hears his secretaries voice on his speaker phone…
God’s secretary: God, you have Joe the plumber on line 452, he wants to know if he should run for congress oh and that Bush guy is still on hold on line 34….
July 1st, 2009 at 12:37 pmPerhaps one day Senator Larry Craig will perform an organ solo on the mighty Wurzelbacher.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:37 pmWe all owe our thanks to John McCain for giving us this man named Sam not Joe, the not plumber.
RIP
July 1st, 2009 at 12:44 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 In (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
It would take three people like Joe the plumber to help an idiot, with no chance of minimal success. Joe the plumber the right wings triple 0 one 0.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:56 pmLol, God does have a sense of humor!
July 1st, 2009 at 1:05 pmGod did ask “Joe the Fake Plumber” to be the laughing stock of the wingnut Republican Party and he has filled his clown role admirably.
Yes, John McCain gave us both not Joe not the plumber and Bible Spice. Can you imagine if that man had won? I shudder at the thought.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:11 pmJoe the Plumber ….proof that dumbing down America WORKRED !!!!
GOD HELP THE WORLD IF YOUR CITIZENS ARE TALKING TO GOD!!!
July 1st, 2009 at 1:14 pmSay it ain’t so, Joe!!!!!!!
July 1st, 2009 at 1:16 pmSorry for the mispelling !!! WORKED…TYPO
July 1st, 2009 at 1:16 pmTeabaggers Unite!
Just make sure you shower first – and use plenty of soap.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:21 pmmark twain stated:
“god made man in his image and then man returned the favor”
to the repubs god favors capitalism and wars for profits and universal health care is out of the question
christianity died on the cross
July 1st, 2009 at 1:21 pmWasn’t it ‘God’ who told Daryll that Mike Huckabee was going to be President?
July 1st, 2009 at 1:28 pmUnfortunately, the God of the Republicans changes his mind and moves the goalposts.
Let us hope the answer remains “No”. That is unless you think a campaign by “Joe/Sam for prez” would be delicious.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:50 pmGod watches over little children and fools, but apparently not Joe. God has a wicked sense of humor by letting Joe keep making a fool of himself.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:53 pmYeah, but God also told Daryll to hate himself because he is gay. Daryll would a lot better off if he told God to shut up and leave him alone.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:53 pmI will admit, that God has recently talked to me but I’ve been reluctant to pass on the message he wanted me to tell to the rest of the world.
God told me that he doesn’t despise abortion. In fact God told me that the unborn whom are aborted is all part of his plan. These pure and innocent souls are saved from experience the insanity of mankind and are immediately sent to heaven.
God went on further to say that heaven has really become unrecognizable to him as he is surrounded by too many souls who have sinned after centuries of him having to accept the souls of sinners due to the sacrifice of his only son on the cross.
He said it’s nice to hang with fresh, pure, untainted, innocent souls who arrive in heaven, he says it keeps his spirits up. ;)
July 1st, 2009 at 2:11 pmNo Joe, it wasn’t God you were talking to, it was your “little green friend”. You know your imaginary friend that told you you were a plumber and the one who convinced you to let John McCain use you like a chump. If God really talked to you, he’s tell you to stop making a specticle of yourself and get a real job.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:28 pm“Joe the Plumber won’t run for office: “You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
And I am sure God has a sense of humor. Now maybe Joe can get a plumbing license and move on. His 15 minutes of fame has been up long time ago. I sense that this is not the last of hearing from Joe the Plumber other than his participation of the teabag parties. I sense a reality show for Joe: Dude, where’s my plunger. Coming to a teevee near you.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:39 pmActually, God saideth,
July 1st, 2009 at 2:50 pm
He continued, “I believe he’s gotten me on this grassroots movement. If I can encourage leaders to step up, that’s what I would like to do. That’s a heavy role. That’s something I don’t know if I am prepared to do yet.”
Gee, Joe, it may be a heavy role, but it can’t be as heavy as plumbing, can it? After all,it doesn’t require a license, does it?
July 1st, 2009 at 3:25 pmHearing those voices again hey Joe? First of all this mental midget isn’t running, because he knows that any partially qualified candidate he ran against could clean his clock. This man has no credentials of any kind. He has no smarts and no education and could never hold his own in a debate. Any debate that called for facts on any subject. He is like an ongoing joke with most of us already knowing the punchline.
By the way, with his plumbing out the window, how does this man earn a living? Are his expenses paid to speak at these rallies? I know it doesn’t go on wardrobe. He looks and speaks as if he was just pulled away from the mule. By force. No, he finds he likes to talk. And talk, and talk. I am still waiting for the first glimmer of intelligence to spring from his bald dome.
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God should tell him to pay his taxes like most patriotic Americans.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:46 pmWayne Says:
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You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
You know… Ted Bundy heard voices in his head too…
July 1st, 2009 at 11:12 am
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and Son of Sam took messages from a dog…, so maybe God is a dog and another right-wing radical that don’t know his hiney from a hole in the ground…
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July 1st, 2009 at 10:15 pmThis makes me want to say “God is great!”
July 1st, 2009 at 11:27 pmAlthough Joe was stopped by God in running for office, he was more irritated by ordinary people telling him to get a life.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:40 amgod: “Like, oh my God… I mean oh my Me… there’s no way I want you to run for office!”
Samuel Wurzelbacher: Hway!
god: Not way.
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher: Gah!
god: Chyeah, as if!
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 amIsn’t it ever so nice to see that at least God
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:46 amhas learned to
“Just Say NO!?”
God’s time is at a premium,
with His claimed contradiction of Mark Sanford’s better judgment once Sanford’s pants are caught down.
Why are the right wing rules always invoked for OTHER people?
And shouldn’t Sanford, like Joe the Plumber, hold the one person he is personally & intimately responsible for, to those standards?
Its good to know God doesn’t think old Joe should get his plumber’s license first & foremost before taking on other responsibility!!!
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:51 amJoe’s been pounding his plunger a little too hard, lately.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pmJoe, it’s me God; have some more advice for you.
Get bent.
That is all.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 pmJoe the Plumber is a joke. I almost feel sorry for this clown because he views himself as some sort of right-wing grass roots savior. As long as idiots like him and Sarah Palin are around, the GOP will remain a wilderness party.
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 pmWait….that’s a good thing. “Keep up the good work Joe!”
All you need is a publicist.
Look at Sarah Palin – she must have a new one, to piggy-back
onto the Jackson Funeral/Memorial Concert for morning shows.
Make anyone a celebrity & star.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:20 am