Romney: Joe The Plumber Better Than Colin Powell

Neil Cavuto's interview with Mitt Romney today was largely unremarkable in the annals of campaign shillery, save for one moment where Cavuto asked Romney to compare having the support of Joe the Plumber to that of General Colin Powell:

CAVUTO: If you had your druthers and could pick between Colin Powell or Joe the Plumber, who would you pick?

ROMNEY: Joe the Plumber, there's a lot more of them, but you want them all. I do not want to minimize Colin Powell. It means a great deal to those who listen to him and follow him, but most people follow their own heart and their own assessment of what is in their best interest. That Joe the Plumber allegory, if you will, is a story that can be told by many people in this country who hoped to build their own business some day and be successful. They are not wild about an idea that suggest the president would take away their income and redistribute it to people who do not pay taxes.

Even that isn't that remarkable of an exchange, but it did generate the best chyron Fox has run all day.

It raises the question: shouldn't the plural form of "Joe The Plumber" be "JOES the Plumber?" That's something for you to consider, while I go about figuring out how America got by with just the ONE Thomas Jefferson.

Comments

[munki]

glad that I did not vote for you in Primary...

[Pulladigm]

Like so many of the republican shills, The guy they call 'Joe the Plumber'(Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher) is a real paragon of republican values. He doesn't like taxes, so he doesn't pay them. He has a tax lien on his property. He opposes government regulation, so, to paraphrase an old Bogart Movie,"We don' need no stinkin' license,'so he doesn't get a professional license as required to insure the safety of the public. After all, what do we care about peoples safety?
Most interesting is that Mr. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher doesn't seem to be registered to vote in the county where he lives or any nearby community. Hmmmm...

[imsickofit]

This campaign the GOP is running is an abosolute DISASTER! It is absolutely INCREDIBLE how incompetent not only the advisors are, but listening to the surrogates ( Mitt Romney ) of this campaign , it's like watching Road Runner get chased by Wild E. Coyote!!

Just when you think your making headway, you misjudge something and fall off a cliff, only to be a ball of dust at the bottom of that cliff.

[barackobama4prez]

mittens is a hater.

[Marlyn]

Ah yes, Romney, who would DOUBLE the size of GITMO.

[tj73]

Wow, what a surprise that Romney is backing the ticket that protects only his own best interests. But let's be clear, this is NOT at Joe the Plumber's best interest. That is a sick joke. Wake up people! This isnt about the redistribution of wealth from the small increase in taxes that affects people making $250k (which btw, my wife & I combined will fall into).

What he's trying to protect is a tax plan that let's him continue to pay a mere ~17% rate on his millions earned on capital gains while his employees continue to pay 32-39% on their thousands on a stagnated incomes. It's a plan that continues to let the greedy top 1% continue to hoard all of their money while their workers continue to struggle to pay for their skyrocketing costs of living. We're talking about $100 billion lost in tax revenue that can help fix the issues we face today as a nation: healthcare, education, green jobs, infrastruc­ture....

What's most appalling about the GOP strategy is that they prey on the unsuspecting and take advantage of the people who are ignorant about the current tax codes that's so skewed to help the rich. Take the public eyes of the ball - accuse a fair tax plan that benefits Joe the plumber most as being 'socialist'. Raising capital gains is not welfare for the poor, keeping the current tax code is corporate welfare!

[wordvarc]

When are the "Joes" going to wake up and feel used and diminished by the RNC/Gop who 'praise' them politically as they suck the life out of the middle and lower class?

The RNC/GOP socialism for the corporate and the rich trickles down nothing to the "Joes" but a wannabe life unfulfilled as their incomes, jobs, healthcare, and access to education is continually diminished.

[tomjones44]

the Democratss are sooooooo lucky that Romney isn't the VP choice.

McCain would be well ahead at this point because of Romney's business background

[HonorJusticeTruth]

It's those people in the current administration with business backgrounds who got us into this mess. The Bush administration has run our country like a business, and the bubble has burst.

[xmw]

Yes, we Dems are soooooooooooo lucky. If Mittens is so wonderful why did he bomb in the primaries??? He was a non-issue in the primaries, he's a non issue NOW.

Oh yeah...tha­t 40 mil he ate with no heartburn sure makes him like the rest of us right.

[ConcernedAmerican]

Yeah...cuz the whackadoodle right wing evangelicals would sooooooo embrace a mormon.

The only people on McCain's side is the evangelicals and that's because they love a fellow nut job like Palin.

Take away Palin and add Romney and McCain would have nothing left but the racists he is courting so feverishly lately....­.

[Golfer59]

Okay, back on the purple pills!! Mitt couldn't be McSane. I wish the two losers were on the same ticket.

[gretcheno]

I was at a Monday night football game setting and everyone in the bar black, white, yellow, green were all rooting for OBAMA. I met a group from WI and they said they are voting Obama too.

So Romney and the others get ready for the one and only Barack for the next POTUS!!

[gretcheno]

Romney=JEALOUS!!!

Get over IT!!

[KrazyKat]

I must disagree -- it's way cooler to be endorsed by an "allegory" than some silly ol' retired general, don'cha think?

[Sammy00400]

Except that the image of Joe is not the same as the reality of Joe.... this Joe the plumber anyway. In the end the simple way to answer which is more important is ask 1000 republicans who would vote for Joe vs Powell. Joe would lose.

[iPolitics]

Hahaha, clowns of Faux News/RNC

[apoyo]

What an apt description: allegory. Because their "Joe" turned out to be nothing but a fairy tale.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

I think they charge Romney up and it talks.