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Well, Now, Mr. Wurzelbacher

Posted on | February 13, 2010 | 15 Comments

by Smitty (h/t Dan Riehl)

That’s just a bit out of the plumbing aisle, now isn’t it?

Wurzelbacher touched on several different points during his speech, and many of them were surprising. He said he doesn’t support Sarah Palin anymore. Why? Because she’s backing John McCain’s re-election effort. “John McCain is no public servant,” he told the room, calling the 2008 Republican nominee a career politician.

I pointed out he’d just be plain old Sam Wurzelbacher of Ohio — Joe the Plumber wouldn’t exist – without McCain. His response was blunt. “I don’t owe him s—. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.”

Wurzelbacher said, “McCain was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.”

Of course, people will say anything to get quoted in this blog…

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15 Responses to “Well, Now, Mr. Wurzelbacher”

  1. uberVU - social comments
    February 14th, 2010 @ 3:35 am

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  2. Dandapani
    February 14th, 2010 @ 1:18 pm

    I’m not happy with Palin’s support of McCain. I haven’t totally given up on her. She probably feels a little loyalty to the man who brought into the public spotlight. So for me, the jury is still out on this. If she goes there, gives a pep talk, and never says another word about McCain, then perhaps we can forgive her. The other TEA party members need to really pull for the real conservatives in the primary race.

  3. Dandapani
    February 14th, 2010 @ 8:18 am

    I’m not happy with Palin’s support of McCain. I haven’t totally given up on her. She probably feels a little loyalty to the man who brought into the public spotlight. So for me, the jury is still out on this. If she goes there, gives a pep talk, and never says another word about McCain, then perhaps we can forgive her. The other TEA party members need to really pull for the real conservatives in the primary race.

  4. richard mcenroe
    February 14th, 2010 @ 6:18 pm

    Actually, as much as I despise McCain, this rather cements my respect for Sarah Palin. Back when Harry Truman was President, he refused to turn his back on the hometown pol who gave him his start, even when said pol was accused of corruption. That was taken as a sign of Truman’s character, that loyalty mattered to him.

    Palin is paying her debts. She’s showing more class than McCain has shown to his party or the voters of Arizona, or than any of the weasels from the McCain ‘campaign’ slithering around nipping at her ankles.

  5. richard mcenroe
    February 14th, 2010 @ 1:18 pm

    Actually, as much as I despise McCain, this rather cements my respect for Sarah Palin. Back when Harry Truman was President, he refused to turn his back on the hometown pol who gave him his start, even when said pol was accused of corruption. That was taken as a sign of Truman’s character, that loyalty mattered to him.

    Palin is paying her debts. She’s showing more class than McCain has shown to his party or the voters of Arizona, or than any of the weasels from the McCain ‘campaign’ slithering around nipping at her ankles.

  6. richard mcenroe
    February 14th, 2010 @ 6:20 pm

    That said, the Plumber’s got every right to be pissed at the McCain camp which used him and left him hanging in the wind, so I have no bitch with him either.

  7. richard mcenroe
    February 14th, 2010 @ 1:20 pm

    That said, the Plumber’s got every right to be pissed at the McCain camp which used him and left him hanging in the wind, so I have no bitch with him either.

  8. dad29
    February 14th, 2010 @ 1:52 pm

    It took Joe HOW long to figure out that he was a Kleenex?

  9. dad29
    February 14th, 2010 @ 6:52 pm

    It took Joe HOW long to figure out that he was a Kleenex?

  10. richard mcenroe
    February 14th, 2010 @ 7:51 pm

    dad29 — To the DC nomenklatura, GOP and Dem, we’re ALL Kleenex. Remember to vote against the incumbents, regardless of party, in the upcoming primary. They ALL need a short sharp shock.

  11. richard mcenroe
    February 14th, 2010 @ 2:51 pm

    dad29 — To the DC nomenklatura, GOP and Dem, we’re ALL Kleenex. Remember to vote against the incumbents, regardless of party, in the upcoming primary. They ALL need a short sharp shock.

  12. Bob Belvedere
    February 14th, 2010 @ 9:57 pm

    1) What Richard wrote.

    2) ‘Kleenix’? How about toilet paper.

  13. Bob Belvedere
    February 14th, 2010 @ 4:57 pm

    1) What Richard wrote.

    2) ‘Kleenix’? How about toilet paper.

  14. Roxeanne de Luca
    February 14th, 2010 @ 11:50 pm

    If Sarah were supporting Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins, I could understand worrying about her loyalty to conservative principles. However, she is showing loyalty and honour; I do wish that people would not criticise her for that.

    While I do think that it is tremendously important to return to conservative principles (the future health of this country does depend on that), I don’t see the need to lose honour in doing so. In fact, in the long run, it is always far more detrimental to give up principles in the belief that the end justifies the means.

    Washington, DC has enough slime and backstabbing. Good on Sarah for demonstrating that there is another way to exist.

  15. Roxeanne de Luca
    February 14th, 2010 @ 6:50 pm

    If Sarah were supporting Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins, I could understand worrying about her loyalty to conservative principles. However, she is showing loyalty and honour; I do wish that people would not criticise her for that.

    While I do think that it is tremendously important to return to conservative principles (the future health of this country does depend on that), I don’t see the need to lose honour in doing so. In fact, in the long run, it is always far more detrimental to give up principles in the belief that the end justifies the means.

    Washington, DC has enough slime and backstabbing. Good on Sarah for demonstrating that there is another way to exist.