Joe the Ex-Republican

[Political Tiger]

Stop the presses... (even though we haven't received the press release yet). Time Magazine is reporting - burying rather - the news that Joe the Plumber, also known as Samuel Wurzelbacher, is quitting the GOP. That's big news considering Joe became the new GOP mascot during the McCain campaign and has since advised the party during conferences and in Capitol Hill briefings.

Below is the excerpt from the Time article.

Well, more elections. Big Government is never popular in theory, but the disaster aid, school lunches and prescription drugs that make up Big Government have become wildly popular in practice, especially now that so many people are hurting. Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he's so outraged by GOP overspending, he's quitting the party -- and he's the bull's-eye of its target audience. But he also said he wouldn't support any cuts in defense, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid -- which, along with debt payments, would put more than two-thirds of the budget off limits. It's no coincidence that many Republicans who voted against the stimulus have claimed credit for stimulus projects in their district -- or that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal stopped ridiculing volcano-monitoring programs after a volcano erupted in Alaska. "We can't be the antigovernment party," Snowe says. "That's not what people want."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/07/joe-the-plumber-quitting_n_198920.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. If you can't stand the clog... hehe KnR n/t

[Mz Pip]

2. Joe is a party unto himself.

He's the party of Joe the Opportunistic Shill.

Guess the GOP will have to find another moran to hawk their insanity. Carrie Prejean might be available soon.

[lisa58]

3. but this doesn't mean we never hear from him again....

...it just goes on and on and on and on and ugh

[HopeHoops]

4. He's a dildo with ears.

I don't care what the fuckstick does - he's almost as dumb as Palin.

[FSogol]

5. Sure, watch as in 2010 he rejoins the rebranded GOP, because "now they get it."

For a party that always has their message coordinated, how come their marketing in so lame and predictable?

:shrug:

[havocmom]

6. earlier this week he likes gays, just not near his kids. Now, he hates the GOP?

Anybody seen hypocrite buster Larry Flynt of late? :think:

Personally, I prefer teh gay around kids to the GOP around kids.

[The River]

7. Another Sock Puppet

caught in the spin cycle.

[louis-t]

8. He'll call himself an "Independent" soon.

Disillusioned repugs do this, yet still spout the same rhetoric.

[Bucky]

9. Lord, what a me-too little copycat opportunist.

What a pissant little anklebiter. I'd almost feel sorry for the Republican Party, except that the loss of Joe the self-aggrandizer is probably a blessing to them.

Oh, shit, you don't think he's gonna become a Democrat now? :wow:

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. Ingrate. After all the Party did for him. n/t