Meghan McCain: Joe the Plumber is a ‘dumbass’
source: http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/meghan-mccain-joe-the-plumber-is-a-dumbass/
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The daughter of failed presidential candidate John McCcain is dealing the dirt on one of her father's more peculiar political friends, the Republican 'everyman' know as Joe the Plumber, aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, who is not really a plumber nor is his name Joe, weird. Poser.
But what so recently seemed antithetical to mainstream Republicanism has lately gained support from unlikely supporters, including former vice president Dick Cheney, who recently expressed support for gay marriage, and Theodore Olson, a lawyer who represented George W. Bush during the contested election of 2000 and who is now working to overturn Prop 8. And John McCain’s former campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, told the Log Cabin Republicans that same-sex marriage was consistent with sound conservative principles. As for her father, McCain says, “He’s 73 and of a different generation. I hope someday he will come around.” But she also credits her own progressive position to her upbringing, recalling a precocious fourth-grade classmate who told her he was gay.
When McCain asked her mother what “gay” meant, she replied “That’s how God made him, and we love everyone.”
Yet even as the balance begins to shift, the old guard is still yapping in the foreground. Shortly before McCain sat for this interview, Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, gave an interview to Christianity Today in which he complained about “queers” and declared, “I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children.” Unprompted, McCain rails against the man her father’s presidential campaign touted as an American everyman and made a showpiece in the weeks before the election. “Joe the Plumber -- you can quote me -- is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing.”
But what so recently seemed antithetical to mainstream Republicanism has lately gained support from unlikely supporters, including former vice president Dick Cheney, who recently expressed support for gay marriage, and Theodore Olson, a lawyer who represented George W. Bush during the contested election of 2000 and who is now working to overturn Prop 8. And John McCain’s former campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, told the Log Cabin Republicans that same-sex marriage was consistent with sound conservative principles. As for her father, McCain says, “He’s 73 and of a different generation. I hope someday he will come around.” But she also credits her own progressive position to her upbringing, recalling a precocious fourth-grade classmate who told her he was gay.
When McCain asked her mother what “gay” meant, she replied “That’s how God made him, and we love everyone.”
Yet even as the balance begins to shift, the old guard is still yapping in the foreground. Shortly before McCain sat for this interview, Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, gave an interview to Christianity Today in which he complained about “queers” and declared, “I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children.” Unprompted, McCain rails against the man her father’s presidential campaign touted as an American everyman and made a showpiece in the weeks before the election. “Joe the Plumber -- you can quote me -- is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing.”
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lj111
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well said neocongo...
- 2 years ago
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lj111
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neocongo
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Joe the plumber is a dumbass. Yet once again, another elitist republican makes the assumption that all plumbers, and presumeably all blue collar workers are dumbasses. An assumption which clearly makes Meghan McCain, a dumbass.
- 2 years ago
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neocongo
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pjacobs51
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Joe the dumbass, an American everyman!
lol
- 2 years ago
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pjacobs51
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bansheewail
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Wow!! hahahhha Wow! That's got to sting a little bit, Sam.......I mean "Joe". Anybody who has ever heard Miss McCain speak knows that she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Her recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher was painful to watch. This is like the pot calling the kettle a dish rag.
- 2 years ago
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bansheewail
