December 09, 2008
Joe the Plumber: McCain made him want to get off the bus
This was a dispiriting campaign season, the public forced to choose between a liberal candidate who hated conservatives ... or the Democrat's Barack Obama.
As it turns out, I wasn't the only one who held his nose in the voting booth and voted against one candidate.
Glenn Beck interviewed Joe the Plumber recently, and the blue-collar star of the election turns out to have been underwhelmed with McCain the Candidate.
GLENN: Well, okay. Let's take them one by one. Tell me about John McCain, something that I don't know.
JOE THE PLUMBER: Well, something you don't know, actually it's probably stuff that you've already guessed and has already been painted in the different media spotlights. Just, well, you know, the bailouts. When I was on the bus with him, I asked him a lot of questions about the bailout because most Americans did not want that to happen, yet he voted for it. At the same time he's talking about how he's going to make somebody famous if they even think about putting pork in the bill? We all know how much pork was in the $700 billion bailout package. And why did he vote for it? And I asked him pretty direct questions and some of the answers you guys are going to receive, you know, they appalled me, absolutely. You know, I was angry. In fact, I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.
GLENN: Really?
JOE THE PLUMBER: Oh, yeah.
GLENN: Why didn't you get off the bus?
JOE THE PLUMBER: Honestly because the thought of Barack Obama becoming President scares me even more ... the Republicans didn't put out a candidate for us to really vote for. It's the lesser of two evils.
John McCain -- a man who delighted in tormenting members of his own party and making common cause with Democrats and the liberal media for much of the last decade -- was never conservatives' top choice to head the GOP ticket.
That McCain voted for the bailout -- despite the pork-filled crap sandwich it became -- proved once and for all that the self-proclaimed straight talker spoke with a forked tongue. I'm thankful that we're rid of McCain as a national candidate.
He'll not be missed.
Posted by Mike Lief at December 9, 2008 08:28 PM
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