Because they’re still trying to figure out how to complain about someone belonging to a Christian church for 20 years and claim he’s a Muslim. Their brains just can’t hold any more.

Why do they not get that?

What’s more, the guy’s either completely disingenuous (see above) or an idiot who doesn’t even seem to understand the tax code he’s against.

To wit: He wants to purchase a business for $286,000. That does not imply that said business makes a profit of $286,000 per year. There’s overhead, and income and liability insurance, and licensing, and health insurance (oops! Joe doesn’t want to buy insurance for his workers)… well, you get the picture. Chances are the business clears much less than $286,000/year and Joe won’t be subject to Obama’s proposed tax increase (there’s a reason it only applies to 5% of the population.)

Of course, maybe this is an incredibly profitable plumbing company that does pull down $286,000/year in net profit (Joe’s getting a hell of a deal!) In which case I don’t think it’s a crime to ask him to pay a bit more in taxes for the good of the country.

Conservatives like to claim the U.S. is the best country in the world. They just don’t want to pay for it.

No, of course not. I can wait for Michelle Malkin to do that.

Aaaaannnnyyy minute now.

To expand on Joe the plumber, I still think he was a McCain plant.

Politico is reporting that Joe is a registered Republican who owes back taxes. He also isn’t “undecided,” since he told CBS News that the debate didn’t change his mind. And since he compared Sen. Obama to Sammy Davis, Jr., in the same interview, in what I’m guessing is a reference to his belief (and, cough, cough, McCain talking point) that Obama is all show, I’m guessing he was already set on Sen. McCain. “In the tank for,” as the McCain folks are so fond of saying.

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Joe (Joseph) or Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — or indeed any Wurzelbacher — still doesn’t seem to have a valid contractor’s license in Ohio. (I always check licensing status on contractors!) He’s now saying he doesn’t need one, since he works for someone else. Well, Joe, that’s not very forward-thinking of you, if you’re hoping to buy the business, is it?

A plant who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

I thought they already had.

I thought we already had.

Joe the plumber was a plant.

Uh, Duros? The article doesn’t say that. Doesn’t even suggest it.

It doesn’t even say what Joe Wurzelbacher’s relationship to Robert Wurzelbacher is, preferring the vague “is a close relative”. Robert is specifically identified as Keating’s son-in-law, but Joe? Is he Robert’s Nephew? Son? Third cousin twice removed on his mother’s side? Could the article not even find this one key fact?

And, do we really want to start guilt by association?

Just to note, I’m finding it very hard to picture Farris (or Jay or Mccann or …) ever conceding on even a small point. (To be fair, Jay Tea has.)

Good on ya, Duros.

True. Maybe he should have been. Recently, it’s hard for a party to win 3 elections in a row, even with a popular incumbent – Nixon in 1960, for example. Bush was able to in 1988.

But I’ll split the point with Farris anyway. In the spirit of bi-partisanship.

Joe the plumber was a plant.

Nice try, Joe.

Adlai Stevenson wasn’t Harry Truman in 1952.

Hubert Humphrey wasn’t LBJ in 1968.

Gerald Ford wasn’t Richard Nixon in 1976.

Or to put it another way: John McCain rarely lets an opportunity slip to refer to his pedigree “as the son and grandson of distinguished Navy admirals.” In contrast, Obama’s bio mentions his father this way: “His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.” Barack doesn’t position his admission to Harvard Law School as part of some great Obama tradition at Harvard.