May 5, 2010 3:38 PM

"Joe the Plumber" Wins Local GOP Elected Office

By
Stephanie Condon
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In The News ,
Republicans
Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher (Credit: AP)

Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher became famous in 2008 when the John McCain presidential campaign heralded him as an average small business owner. Now, he is an elected official himself.

Wurzelbacher won one of nearly 400 seats on the Republican Party committee for northwest Ohio's Lucas County, the Associated Press reports. The group only meets a few times a year to elect the county chairman and sets the party agenda.

The McCain campaign held up Wurzelbacher as an example of the blue collar workers McCain said he would support as president, but the Ohio resident later criticized the senator for "trying to use" him.

After the election, Wurzelbacher managed to hold onto some of his notoriety, writing a book and even serving briefly as a war correspondent.


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by mjrdude June 10, 2010 1:07 PM EDT
In following an AOL news link on a story about Al Gore, I was led to a neo-Nazi site called StormFront.org. There were some postings by a guy calling himself Joe the Plumber. Is it the same one? Don't know, but I wish someone in the media would call and ask him.
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by hakori May 6, 2010 11:26 AM EDT
This gives new meaning to 'the blind leading the blind'. I have to wonder if conservatives actually embrace qualities like ignornace and ineptitude in their politicans: Dubya, Palin and now Wurzelbacher. The right says it's liberals who want to destroy America, well I say it's conservatives and their willingness to disregard competance and knowledge for radical ideololgical purity that threatens our democracy.
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by HemiHead66 May 6, 2010 11:13 AM EDT
Now I've seen everything. And his so called fame was based on a lie.
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by whosaid1 May 6, 2010 9:12 AM EDT
"one of nearly 400 seats on the Republican Party committee for northwest Ohio's Lucas County " Not exactly a NATIONAL office....listen, I'm no fan of "Joe the Plummer"....he's just someone who was drug into the spotlight by the media...and he became addicted to it. But....hey, when compared to some of the "not so smart" people who hold national office (yeah both sides)...just how bad is he??!!
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by Sonoran_Alliance May 6, 2010 1:09 AM EDT
Off to a good start! In Arizona, John McCain has overstayed his visa with the voters! JD Hayworth is on the move for the US Senate seat. I'm giving him a donation right now! https://www.jdforsenate.com/ctt?cttid=46&redirect=contribute
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by tiredofeverything May 6, 2010 1:35 AM EDT
Let me get this straight... you're actually saying that electing 'Joe the Plumber' is getting off to a good start?
by infonato61 May 6, 2010 12:32 AM EDT
prometheus77
Boy you got the Webster out for that tripe... such hostility. Go take a valium or a shot of heroin might help.
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by infonato61 May 6, 2010 12:30 AM EDT
prometheus77
Boy you got the Webster out for that tripe... such hostility. Go take a valium or a shot of heroin might help.
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by magabondu May 5, 2010 8:57 PM EDT
Really Stephanie?:"Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher became famous in 2008 when the John McCain presidential campaign heralded him as an average small business owner. Now, he is an elected official himself."

No Joe the Plumber became famous when Obama told him he wanted to SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND. Nice editorial twist- I'm sure all the left wing Sheeple that read your garbage ate it right up.
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by tiredofeverything May 5, 2010 9:14 PM EDT
Obama spent all of two minutes with the guy, McCain took him on a campaign tour around the country.
Care to try again?
by ToolMangler1 May 5, 2010 7:33 PM EDT
That just shows that those that 'can', do... Those that "Can't", become politicians..
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by ToolMangler1 May 5, 2010 8:38 PM EDT
My way is shorter, LOL
by ToolMangler1 May 5, 2010 8:42 PM EDT
Besides that, I like teachers mostly.
by prometheus77 May 5, 2010 7:11 PM EDT
THAT's Joe the Plumber?

And all this time, I thought that was Joe the JackAss. You Republicans are going to have to start growing facial hair and get reasonable toupees or something, it's like you all look like either bald-headed red-neck Young Frankensteins or there's that puffy-faced, Rush Limbaugh flabby-joweled, tight-lipped child molester glasses wearing Mitch McConnell/George Will look going for you there.

It's like you've a have this mold for two separate castes, both born of parents who never respected you, but along different evolutionary paths entrenched with the same ideology to serve as a totem or emotional shield for your common suppressed self-loathing. And it's the rest of us, our democracy and the pitiful/frightened looks from the world around us, that have to suffer -- all because you won't take that loaded gun that we would have to pry from your cold dead fingers, stick it up you ass and pull the trigger.

Either that or some kind of weird parasite colony that's evolved into two separate strains. Maybe the Mitch McConnells should be riding piggy-back on the Joe the Jackasses and you could become Master Blasters.
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