Yo, Joe! Do You Mean Shooting Off Your Mouth or An Actual Gun?
Joe the Plumber. I don’t know about you, but I generally take all my political, economic, and social advice from my plumber.
And, as most of you know by now, Joe the Plumber’s name is not Joe and he’s not a plumber.
He does, however, eat bullets for breakfast so he can shoot off his mouth all day. Today, he’s salivating and rubbing his hands together at the thought of killing some Mexicans.
At two separate events in recent days, Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher has proposed to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting.”
Wurzelbacher first made the remarks during a campaign rally for Arizona Republican state Rep. Lori Klein on Friday, according to video published by Prescott eNews.
“For years I’ve said, you know, put a damn fence on the border, going to Mexico and start shooting,” he insisted.
You know, cause he loves Jesus.
And you remember his friend Lori Klein, the Arizona State Senator who pointed her pink Ruger at a reporter and called it “cute.” No, Honey, my hot pink rhinestone studded sandals are cute. Your batcrap crazy hands around a Ruger falls directly under the category of Not Cute.
Thanks to Kathleen for the heads up.
Yup, I remember Klein. She said her pulling her Ruger and pointing it directly in the chest of a reporter was “no threat because my finger wasn’t on the trigger.” That’s AZ GOP cute.
1Juanita Jean, do you think there will ever come a day when these bat guano crazy folks won’t gravitate to states like Texas and Arizona? I want to put up a “NO VACANCY” sign on every highway into Arizona to keep these critters out!
2(from a voicemail message somewhere in Ohio)
BEEEEEEEEP!
3“Hi, Joe, or Sam, or whatever your name is…Andy Warhol here. Has anyone told you that your 15 minutes was over like 3 1/2 years ago? Now be a good boy and go fix a faucet or something…ta-ta!”
BEEEEEEEEP!
Gramiam, do you have to look outside of Arizona to import frothing at the mouth loons? Here in Texas we grow our own, unfortunately, in abundance. Some of them we elect to office, governor, congressman, offices like that.
4We in Ohio have to take the blame for Samuel Wurzelbacher. One of my buddies in Obama HQ in Toledo was staffing Sen. Obama on the neighborhood walk where this carbuncle on the posterior of politics seized the opportunity and became a meme.
Although not allowed to blog after joining the campaign, I contacted my HuffPost editor and let him know that Wurzelbacher was not registered to vote, it turns out that “Worzelbacher” was which was interesting because per the rules the GOP was trying to pass, Joe would not have been eligible to vote.
Two and a half weeks later, John McCain entered my campaign territory in Defiance, Ohio, and made what was basically the last gaffe of his campaign, calling for Joe the Plumber to stand-up, when Joe was already off doing his own thing. “Everybody stand up, you’re all Joe the Plumber,” McCain lamely finished, even though everyone ( a crowd of school children bussed in from around the county) was already standing.
So we have John McCain to thank for both Joe the Plumber and Caribou Barbie, the shortbus kids who overcame their own inadequacy to become Homecoming King and Queen at Teabag Junior High.
5Has this guy ever heard of Jesus?
6Joe, maybe you haven’t had time to read the news recently, but there have been mass shootings at Texas A&M, Wisconsin, and Colorado. Most people tend to agree none of those shootings solved a problem, in fact, it was the gunman who was the problem. That would be you Joe, when you suggest “going to Mexico and start shooting.”
7Speech that incites violence is not protected speech. Throw this moron in prison!
8@ Suze I am with u all the way. Years ago I attended Mass with my children who were small at the time. As we were leaving a flyer advertising a field trip to the local PP to “pray” using the most shocking inflammatory language. I was appalled; John Gotti had just shot up a clinic in the Northeast, incited by the same sort of crap. I went and got the priest, and dragged him over to it (kids right there) and said, “this has to stop, we can’t be promoting this crap, it’s dangerous, and one of OUR kids might go off the deep end!” He pulled it right down, agreed, and I didn’t see anything like that again ahilé he was there.
9We need to build a fence around Wurzelbacher. Shooting will be optional.
10I read all your comments, and all I can say is “ditto.” I fail to understand how shooting people somehow solves a “problem.” Do any of the folks who espouse gun violence even have a clue? I’m okay with owning guns — my husband has always been a bird hunter — but how is it okay to just shoot other human beings? My dear husband has always said, “Never point a gun at something you don’t intend to kill.” It just keeps getting crazier and crazier out there, and Kellybee, I agree we don’t need Joe (or whatever the hell his name is) to keep popping up. Or anyone like him.
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