Joe the Plumber goes rogue! Blames McCain for ruining his life, turns on Palin

[TeamJordan23]

Joe the Plumber goes rogue

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 doesn’t support Sarah Palin anymore. Why? Because she’s backing John McCain’s re-election effort. “John McCain is no public servant,” he told the room, calling the 2008 Republican nominee a career politician.

I pointed out he’d just be plain old Sam Wurzelbacher of Ohio — Joe the Plumber wouldn’t exist – without McCain. His response was blunt. “I don’t 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.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/Joe_the_Plumber_goes_rogue.html

[Jennicut]

1. Like Duh. Of course McLame was using you.

I mean, hello. What a loser.

[BlueMTexpat]

29. Sheesh!

That was exactly MY reaction. Thanks for posting it as the #1 response!

:loveya:

[felinetta]

58. Joe is so dumb he couldn't even figure this out til now? Good poster child for Republicans.

[Cosmocat]

89. From the mean arse dogging biting its masters hand ...

comes Joe the Plumber biting McCain, Palin and the GOP ...

[pepperbear]

84. this sounds alot like.....

"hey uhm uh is this thing on? wow, tough room. I have a book for sale. see me on the break. take care of your bartenders and servers. uh...hello? remember me? joe 'the-face-of-the-disgruntled-thought-I-was-gonna-lose-all-my-power-in-redneck-america' the plumber. yeah THAT plumber guy."

"What...they want me for VH1s I LOVE THE ZEROS?"

"see ya!"

[WonderGrunion]

2. "As you sow, so shall you reap"

Sam's life was thoroughly screwed before John McCain ever entered it. He needs to look in the mirror more if he wants to see who is really responsible for his lot in life.

[FormerDittoHead]

39. Yes. WHERE'S THAT GOOD OLD "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY" JOE???

Joe could have simply closed his door and shut his mouth.

HOWEVER...

We all need help from OUTSIDE of ourselves as we bend to external forces which can be too much for regular people. It's that simple.

Rush Limbaugh drugged himself to deafness and was a couple of steps away from jail until he went to a rehab.

This is why I hate such memes as 'personal responsibility'. That's why should we provide health care to poor people - because they are somehow responsible for their getting cancer. They should take 'personal responsibility'....

So the real-life story of Joe the Plumber is told time and again, but they cling onto the fantasy.

Time to get born-again, Joe!

[TxVietVet]

75. The conservanazis eat their own.

Joe the Dildo owes whatever positive or negatives in his life to his own self.
He's just another conservanazi nutjob cashing in on trashing Obama.
Joe the wannabe plumber wasn't even licensed to do the job. Another "free market" wonder.

What he's doing now is what most of the true believer wingnuts do: being a hypocrite.

He and personal responsibility never met. :rofl:

[DailyGrind51]

82. Exactly! Joe was hoping to promote his music career via McCain.

[av8rdave]

3. It took him what, a year and a half to figure that out?

If you look at his resume, betcha you won't see Mensa anywhere on there.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Poor guy. Gosh. I feel so sorry for him...

Yeah right. :eyes:

Fuck him.

[KansasVoter]

5. So McCain MADE him attend all those meetings? Joe is an idiot. He asked for all of it!

[YOY]

6. So much for the party of "Personal Accountabilty"

Just remember...this asshole and his irresponsible dipshit brethren crowed "the adults are back in charge!" when Bush II won. Says a lot. No fucking accountabilty.

Joe did it all to himself. Nobody made him write a book. Nobody made him take the plumber shit and run with it. Nobody. He did it HIMSELF.

[struggle4progress]

7. Ah wuz wondrin what becumma Jodap Lumma!

[neverforget]

8. Tough shit Plumber boy.

:nopity:

[niceypoo]

9. I will never understand why anyone cares what this halfwit says

...about anything. People actually pay him to speak?

[zulchzulu]

10. I thought Sam The Scab hung himself months ago...

He's still alive?

Wow.

[scarface2004]

80. love the animated gif

where can i buy one?

[Armstead]

11. God help us if he is the "face of Middle America"

[Historic NY]

12. Joe you should have bought a plumbing business.........

:rofl: because your a tool.

[Solomon]

37. He don't got a license.

Remember?

[Historic NY]

44. He'll keep trying but I think his grifter job was paying more. ....

wonder if he made more than 250k...wouldn't that be something his taxes would have been raised.:evilgrin:

[TxVietVet]

76. He can't get a license because....

he'd have to study and take a test.

You see, any conservanazi dildo can say he's a plumber, but if you're licensed and do the work, you probably are one.

Joe ain't gotta clue. :think:

[TwilightGardener]

13. Who keeps inflicting this doofus on us? WHY??

[izquierdista]

14. "...trying to use me"

I guess now we can call him "Joe the Plunger". :rofl:
Hey Joe, make yourself useful, I got a problem with the upstairs toilet and there's shit all over the floor.

[M155Y_A1CH]

15. K&R

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[JI7]

16. no you fucking dumbass, you ruined your own life, you fucking ignorant whore

[Kurt Remarque]

17. sam needs to take his meds

[JamesA1102]

18. This guy just likes to blame everyone else.

Nothing is ever his fault. Now all his problems are McCain's fault. The fact that he thinks he's the face of middle america just shows how divorced from reality he is.

[Lint Head]

19. Joe the Idiot screwed his own life up.

He was picked out by Obama to shake his hand. Then Joe the Idiot was asked about it and said he didn't agreed with or like what Obama stood for. McCain's handlers then jumped on the band wagon while Joe the Idiot promoted himself to the media.

[Bravo Zulu]

20. Next stop,

Tea klux Klan!

[rockymountaindem]

21. The three of them deserve each other n/t

[DesertFlower]

22. did he forget that McCain referred to him as "my idol".

[lib_wit_it]

23. Low-life lying attention whore. He tried to help get the Career Politician and Caribou Barbie into

the White House with his self-aggrandizing bullshit. Yeah, fuck him.

[tulsakatz]

24. uh, duh!

it took him this long to figure out he was being used?

Not only is he not a plumber, apparently he doesn't even have much of a brain either!

[TxVietVet]

77. Joe's so eat up with the dumbass.....

you can hear it CHOMPING on him. :rofl:

[tulsakatz]

87. haha........

yeah, he's pretty slow to realize at this late date that he was being used!

[Mz Pip]

25. Oh really???

It's not like poor little Joe didn't get anything out of this evil embrace. McCain/Palin made him famous. He was a media darling for a whole lot longer than 15 minutes, which if I remember correctly he embraced whole heartedly.

So what's the problem Joe? You were more than happy to go along for the ride.

So the 15+ minutes are over and now you're going through withdrawl. It must suck to be so addicted to media attention that when it dries up you think your life is ruined.

So sorry.:nopity:

Mz Pip

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

34. Really....

Joe/Sam can blame McCain up until the first week of November of 2008. After that, it's all on him. I'm sure McCain would rather have nothing to do with the guy at this point.

Typical Republican. Blame somebody else for your screw-ups in life.

[badgerpup]

56. As we say on FARK...

THIS

:thumbsup: :thumbsup::yourock:

[LatteLibertine]

26. Joe is a dumb cvnt

and John McCain is a gilded corporate tool. To hell with them both.

If you doubt me on McCain check the cash he got from the financial sector alone for 1989-2009. Over 35mil.

http://ow.ly/UyZe

[FrenchieCat]

27. Does Joe becomes accountable as to what happens to him

at any point in time?

[Robbie88]

51. I would guess not...

The "Joe the Plumbers" of the world seem to always have one set of standards pertaining to "personal responsibility" as it relates to themselves and another set of standards to which they hold the rest of the populace. Still, I'm amazed that someone who seems to believe that his life was "screwed up" by his thrust into the public eye continues to give speeches at "conservative events"...

[Divine Discontent]

28. I love it! I hope this causes mass confusion to all the tea bag fanatics and the GOP who are torn

who to defend! HA... GO JOE THE PLUMBER!!!

[Swamp Rat]

30. LOL!

:D

[ProgressOnTheMove]

31. Any Repub lurkers, if they use the plumber guy imagine what they do to their voters. That is all.

[Vinca]

32. Joe the Spurned Plumber.

And here I thought he was a good running mate for Palin.

[tanyev]

33. Write another book about it, Joe!

[Brother Buzz]

74. His first book received a five star rating over at Amazon

1,563 of 1,746 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Joe ain't no average American, March 2, 2009
By Gen. JC Christian, patriot

RINO spinmeisters, aided and abetted by the liberal media, have promoted Joe the Plumber as being an everyman, the archetypical "average American." This book shatters that image.


Joe the Plumber is not the "average American." He's the "average conservative," and I thank God for that.

Last year, the "average American" elected an Harvard educated constitutional law professor to the presidency. Average conservatives knew better. They rallied behind Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin, people like ourselves; people I proudly call "mediocre Americans."

And that's why Joe is still so immensely popular. He's angry, vicious, ignorant, and intellectually incurious. He's one of us, and like us, he didn't learn about public policy and international relations at a university or from books or journals; he learned everything he needed to know by tuning into Rush, Hannity, Savage, and Ingraham.

This is a great book, one every true conservative should buy, and more importantly, read. Yes, I know that sounds like a tall order, but it's an easy read. Joe uses one and two syllable words (many of them, written forms of various grunts) almost exclusively. If I have one complaint, it's that the publisher, Pearlgate, printed it in ink rather than crayon like the original manuscript. Other than that, I think it truly is the perfect book for the average conservative.

:rofl:

http://www.amazon.com/review/RRKV0ADMBILR5/ref=cm_cd_pg_next?ie=UTF8&cdPage=3#wasThisHelpful

[OnionPatch]

35. "Rightwing Blowhard"

is written all over him.

I'm the Queen of England if he's the face of America. :eyes:

[annabanana]

36. A small stupid man slowly becomes aware of the fact that he's

been used. He has just realized that he was a punchline from the start.

It almost makes you feel sorry for him.

[Myrina]

79. ... now if only the rest of the Baggers and the GOP faithful would catch on ...

.... that they've been used for the past 50 or so years, too. Sigh.

[GoCubsGo]

38. Ahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

People can't use you unless you let them, you big crybaby. And, you let McCain do just that--in spades. Cry me a river.

[JoeyT]

40. It's amazing how all these

"Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" people never seem to be to blame for any of their decisions.
This is the guiding principle of the Tea Party movement. (And conservatism in general) If you can't get ahead, someone else is to blame.
Doesn't matter who. Minorities are convenient. Liberals too. If all else fails the gubmint is there.
The problems everyone else has are shitty choices. Your problems are the result of a conspiracy to keep you down.

[jimlup]

41. Redneck blow back

:rofl:

[me b zola]

42. No, ass hat, you inserted yourself into the political arena

You took it upon yourself, armed with only rush's bs talking points, to confront then Senator Obama. And because you weren't a plummer as you claimed, and did not have anything better to do with your time, you willing went on the InSane/Palin tour, then inserted yourself in foreign policy.

No, sorry "Joe", it was you. Unless you were put up to your stunt (confronting Obama) by McCain and/or the rnc and you want to come clean about it now. Do tell.

[troubledamerican]

43. Join a UNION, Joe, and support higher tax on the Ultrawealthy because

it's the ULTRAWEALTHY who have really ruined your life and ours.

[democracy1st]

45. " Say it aint so Joe "

[wroberts189]

62. Haha :) That guy is such a tool ..I mean fool err actually both. nt

[Electric Monk]

46. New nickname: Sam the Slow

Thinking things through is not his strong suit, clearly.

[southernyankeebelle]

47. Yep, he used you without twisting your arm. You didn't mind being used because you loved the

attention. Of course the most important thing is you made money off of that little venture. Now you slap the guy that helped you. Why you are just like your gal quitter Palin. You loved having your little wet dreams while standing next to her. At least I'll give the bitch credit she is paying back the guy who brought her to the dance. You are worse then Palin. Are you still unemployed loser? This country is in trouble when they allow people like Sam the Loser and Quitter Palin come accross like they are intellgent.

[Dr.Phool]

48. I was just wondering what ever happened to that dipshit.

Now I know.

[rasputin1952]

49. A perfect example of typical RW insanity...

It is always someone else's fault when things go awry.

Now I will be honest, upon occasion there are things that happen that we cannot control, and may be caused by other people... ie: a family on their way home from a vacation gets a sudden dose of reality because a drunk driver plows into their car. But when you get into the drunk's car, of your own volition, and then pass the driver another 4 beers...well, you see where this is going.

The RW'ers have this ability that escapes most sane people, they tend to blame anyone they can for whatever comes down the pike when things get a little "odd". "Joe" could have just gone on with his life, grabbing the plunger at odd hours and making a few dollars as he plugged along, instead, he had to plunge ahead and go for the Brass Ring...and he missed.

Everything that was involved in his "notoriety" was of a, (I suppose), well paid exercise in futility. He tied himself to the losing horse, then complained when it galloped away at breakneck speed.

He not only got into the drunk's car, he bought the extra beer for the driver, egged the driver on, stomped on the gas pedal and then took no blame for the wreck that occurred...typical RW behavior. Nothing has changed in WingNut World...:eyes:

[demtenjeep]

50. the money well dried up.

That is why he is crying now.

[wroberts189]

63. +1 ...I bet he still does not have a plumbers license yet either. nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

52. While I'm no defender of McCain, and certainly not Moosealini

Samuel Joseph Weaselfucker is a hypocrite. McCain screwed up your life? No, dumbshit, he bought you that 15 minutes of fame that Andy Warhol seems to think everybody should get, and you milked it for all it was worth. You ain't the face of middle Americans, pal. You aren't even a goddamn plumber. Not legally, anyway.

Times up Sam. Now you go back to being unemployed like millions of others, thanks to the assholes you voted for over the last 30 years.

[RoadRage]

53. As of 12:01am on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - he no longer mattered..

It's sad that now 15 months later he's just figuring that out.

On a positive note, he could thank Obama for doing everything he can to keep the man employed, and for NOT raising his taxes like he promised he wouldn't. But, I think "Joe" pretty much hates everyone now...

[golfguru]

54. Joe is the typical whiner always blaming others for their failures

I have run into many many of those kind in my life time.
It is never their own fault for screwing up their lives.
Here are some of the excuses:

I was abused as a child
I was discriminated
I had too much peer pressure to go bad
I invested with Madoff
I was born poor
.
.
You get my drift!
.
For every one of these whiners, there are 100 times other people who
had the same problem, worked their way out of it and became a success.
Count me in the non-whining group.

I was a poor immigrant, came here with $100 in my pocket, no relatives,
no friends, nothing.
I was discriminated based on my accent, national origin, skin color.
I made some terrible investments.

Yet today I am living the American dream.

[butterfly77]

55. Now,he realizes it .

Bullshit! He knew what he was doing he was trying to milk it for all it was worth but they liked Sarah more,he just didn't know how to play their stupid base..Did he say how McCain screwed up his life?

[Kurovski]

57. Whatever works, I guess.

A hustler gotta move with the action.

[mitchum]

59. Joe the Pig is mad because the gravy train quit making deliveries to his trough

fuck him

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

66. i hope he put some away for plumbing school

Yeh Right, I just can't bring myself to feel for this one.

[Cha]

60. Wow, be careful who you pluck out of obscurity to be the

face of the average republicon whining schmuck.

They mostly have a bunch of gopers for comments but I found this one..

"Palin is an Idiot and a Fraud, Joe the Plumber is no better, maybe even stupider if that's even possible. Poor Johnny McCain had to sell his soul to the far right for a shot at the Presidency, so I lost all respect for him. The Tea-baggers are nothing more than a bunch of racists and fear mongers who hide behind the cloak of "Fiscal Responsibility"- they don't believe that sh_t! They hate Obama because of his race and they fear any change because they may lose what they have taken! Finally, after eight years of a corrupt and borderline retarded leader, we finally have honest and intelligent leadership! thank God for Obama and you tea-baggers can keep dreaming of your NAZI Utopia!"

I know..he/she should have used "mentally challenged".

[pundaint]

61. I celebrate Joe's progress. None of us used to be as smart as we are now.

And should he evolve into being a Progressive I will be pleased to have him join us. Joe, if you have any questions on politics, we can help you here.

[BenjaminFranklin]

64. He's still a retard teabagger

Him and people like him are cancers on America. Fuck him, John McCain, Sarah Palin, and their little dog, too.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

65. the link did not say just how long it took him to figure this out

but will he ever figure out he is NOT " the face of middle Americans " .
he is instead the face of those the republicans constantly manipulate.

[SemperEadem]

67. typical bagger

No, Sam.. you ruined your own life by exposing the fraud you always were and allowing yourself to be pimped out and your money taken by the two of them.

Take responsibility for what you did, what you said yes to, what you agreed to do. No one forced you to say yes when they asked you to join them. I saw no one twisting your arm behind your back and forcing you onstage with mooselini and grampy.

You never were the face of middle america... most of them pay their damn taxes like they're supposed to.

[pasto76]

68. typical dumbshit response

it isnt my fault I left plumbing, tried to be a tv personality and even went to the middle east to "report" on the Lebanon war.

It's all McCains fault.

[patrice]

69. You need us and we need you, Joe. Stick with us.

[vaberella]

70. Why is he making speeches? And where? Walmart? n/t

[benld74]

71. NO DUH!??! Sewer gas does that to some people I guess,,,

[SalmonChantedEvening]

72. But if Huckabee wanted to use him

His dumbass would be making speeches in a heartbeat.

[Blue_Tires]

73. translation: "I'm bitter because I couldn't convert my 15 mins to lasting wealth..."

"I've already spent the advance from my book, and those behind-the-scenes talks with Faux to have my own news show fell through...I have a shameless entitlement complex for fame, and after my time in the spotlight, no one could EVER expect this self-styled icon of the working class to actually go back to being an unskilled nonunion apprentice!!"

[Bette Noir]

78. Joe's not the brightest bulb in the box.

He'll never realize that he screwed up his own life, with his aggressive form of ignorance.

[bluesbassman]

81. Joe, that big sucking sound you hear? It ain't the plunger.

:)

[pepperbear]

83. so city councilman, county supervisor....what's he running for? n/t

[Gman]

85. McCain using him sure didn't bother him when he went and got an agent

and wrote a book, went to Israel and the Middle East paid for by the RW, and speaking engagements, etc. Beats the hell out of being a non-union scab, unlicensed plumber.

[JCMach1]

86. Cry me a river Douchbag!

Joe, not the OP

[Ganja Ninja]

88. (sniff sniff) This is so sad. (sniff)

:cry: Poor Joe, he had it all going for him. As a plumber he was on a first name basis with shit, now he is shit.:cry:

[Douglas Carpenter]

90. Wurzelbacher also told the room to lay off the extreme personal attacks on President Obama

Wurzelbacher also told the room to lay off the extreme personal attacks on President Obama. He said people who question whether Obama was born in the United States or compare him to Hitler “belittle and set back” the conservative movement. “The birthers, the truthers — if people are trying to bunch them , that would kill us. That just pushes away Democrats and independents who might come out for our cause otherwise.” He said he actually likes Obama, in some ways. “I think his ideology is un-American, but he’s one of the more honest politicians. At least he told us what he wanted to do.”

http://scottdetrow.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/a-few-minutes-with-joe-the-plumber/