Shocker: Plumber A Conservative, A Fan Of The Military + McCain

I want to know what Super Mario The Plumber thinks.

I heard Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher (who is not a licensed plumber, by the way) on the radio this morning. He said he didn't know who Barack Obama is or what he stood for, while even though he might not agree with John McCain on a lot of things, at least he knows him. Let me get this straight -- the devil that you disagree with is better than the guy you're not sure you disagree with?

Clearly Joe The Plumber can't read, because the Obama website is so full of detailed information about his plans and the reasoning behind them that I bet policy-wonk Bill Clinton hasn't read it all yet. As for not knowing who Obama is, clearly Joe The Plumber hasn't been paying attention to the news for the past year and a half, as Obama and his family have been swimming in the media fishbowl for more than 20 months now.

According to the Boston Globe, Joe claims to be "a conservative, a fan of the military and McCain." Shocker!

Once again, Barry Crimmins hits the plumber on the head saying, "So all we really saw last night was McCain using Joe as a human tax shield for the wealthy.

The Arizona senator's premise that Joe would be hurt by the Obama plan is weaker than the Bud Light Cindy McCain peddles. For starters, almost no one with a new small business does well enough to pay him or herself anything near 250 grand in the first year. Even if Joe were to actually own a business and somehow become instantly successful, unless he is an idiot, he would simply pay himself $249,999.99 per year and plow the rest of his profits back into tax exempt business expenses. That way he could improve and enlarge his new plumbing firm while avoiding the bigger income tax bill. If Joe is too cheap to hire a good accountant to explain this to him, chances are he is too stupid to clear a quarter of a million a year for himself.

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