It's disgusting the way the McCain campaign is desperately exploiting this guy to appeal to the lowest common denominator"

No..that guy IS the lowest common denominator and  he's relishing all of this.

He seems to political be basically a dittohead.

Sounds like an afternoon on the Rush Limballs show when he talks.

Does anyone know about the district he is in?

Is that gonna play? If it's that hard right, who's the congress critter now?

The other factor is, I know this type of guy, he's got to have some other skeletons in his closet besides back taxes.

Sounds like, if I was the Democrat in that district, wouldn't mind running against Joe.

Joe the Plumber isn't much different from Sarah the Moose Hunter.

Just a couple of egotistical half-wits thrown up by McCain to feed the Repub base.

Here is the problem with the GOP...intellectually incurious and rabble-rousing demagogues. If this idiot is the symbol of the Republican party, god help us all.

Also John McCain should really be running for the Grand Marshall of the KKK. That job is better suited for him now.

These are John's last days, and he's not going quietly.  I guess he may think there is still a chance to steal the election, by voter intimidation and by bringing up the 'fear' card, and by trying to convince Jewish voters that Barack doesn't support the state of Israel.  and even if that brings him no voters and loses him some, it will give a 'reason' why the exit polls may not match with the 'outcome,' and cover up those machines that may be programmed to switch votes out of sight and without a trail.

But that's harder now, with the big sweep coming up, they would have had to plan ahead and get something in place even in the usual pug states, the landslide that may happen (fingers crossed) may make election fraud unlikely to tip it for John.

This is what Sarah has been saying too, the I love Israel and glad to hear that you do too, not, is a blatant attempt to cause fear in older Jewish voters.  I don't think it will work.  

Yesterday an assasination attempt on Obama was thwarted and Bill Burton went on Fox to call them out for being in the tank for McCain.

Fox might be trying to prove that they're not as conservative as we claim (an effort which will last all of about five minutes, but still), and there may be some actual concern about the results of the hate speech on the right.

Firstly, Senator Obama has never said he would meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. the President of Iran, and it is a sorry reflection on the insularity and ignorance of the American public, and punditry, that this assumption has become popular mythology.  As I have been attempting to point out for over a year the head-of-state of Iran is the Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with whom Putin met when he had head-of-state talks in Tehran last October.  Please, let's get this straight.  Biden made this distinction in the VP debate and it was lost on most commentators.

Secondly, the choice of Joe the Plumber as spokesperson and wedge surrogate is the height of wing-nuttery and desperate strategy.  It is an embarrassment to the political process as anyone listening to this fool can discern, he is a 'flat tax' Limbaugh conservative who is as dishonest as he is misinformed and offers nothing more than polemic parody to the political discourse to the merriment of progressives and the fidgeting discomfort of conscious conservatives.

Finally, it is gratifying to note the growing tendency of Fox to walk-back from the abyss they have brought us to over the past decade.  Screw them, to be sure, but the harsh reality of the political landscape they are facing, indeed have been pioneers in creating, has obviously focussed what passes for the minds of their editorial management to negotiate the minefield they face during the impending majority Democratic administration.  Kudos to the Obama campaign for taking them on from the beginning and threatening diminished access as quid pro quo for mindless ranting.  Tough times ahead I'm hoping.  We may lose more than one mad hatter conservative demagogue in the process, the sooner the better.

And as for the future of the wing-nut Right, the remaining partisans at Fox, in allegiance with the likes of Joe and the ignorant, xenophobic, white Palin 'rump' of the Republican party are our best guarantee of a generation of government I can possibly imagine.  We shall enjoy this pandemic virus plaguing the reconstruction of their party for years to come.

Joe the Plumber, Lipstick on a Pig, and a thousand iterations of "My friends! My friends!"

Yea, that ship sunk.

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, unlicensed 'plumber', has a tax lien on his house, lied about himself to try to trip up Obama and experienced a major FAIL, grabbed up by McPoopyPants' genius campaign and made the epitome of the "average McCainiac" is - in the final analysis- a fucktard of epic proportions....

Seriously - the shitbird was able to outrage FUX NEWS for goodness sakes!

In my sink drain.  It's sad and pathetic that once-serious political party centers an October campaign on some nimrod named "Joe the Plumber."  Six days and they can all wallow in their despair -- while we dance!

had this to say about Joe the Plumber in her latest column, which is in the USA Today and a bunch of other newspapers (including the Des Moines Register):

http://www.rgj.com/article/20081028/COL2 6/810280321/1129/BIZ

This week, I intended to write my election-year evaluation of the presidential candidates and small-business issues. When, wham! Suddenly a guy named "Joe the Plumber" entered the arena.

Joe took center stage during the final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama to discuss how small businesses will fare under the policies of each, and the McCain campaign refers to "Joe the Plumber" in stump speeches.

Please don't have Joe or his boss represent small business. Joe isn't licensed in Ohio, and it appears his boss is violating the law by employing Joe. Joe has a lien against him for failure to pay income tax.

So, move over, Joe. And let those of us who run honest small businesses hear what the candidates are going to do for us.

Shepard Smith clearly seems more at ease when doing his snappy highlights newscast in the evening. I do not know how moderate he is, but at least he seems to have a BS meter ticking inside him, something sorely lacking in 90% of the FOX staff.

Let's not forget Shepard was the FOX guy who was disturbed by the incompetence and negligence during the Katrina incident.