New McCain Ad: We Are All Joe The Plumber

John McCain is going all in on the Joe-the-plumber meme with a television ad this morning that showcases other small business owners -- all claiming to be veritable Joe the Plumbers themselves -- criticizing Barack Obama's tax policies.

"Spread the wealth?" the anchor asks.

"I'm supposed to work harder..." says one man.

"Just to pay more taxes," says another.

"Obama wants my sweat to pay for his trillion dollars in new spending?"

The spot, titled "Sweat Equity," was rumored to be in the works yesterday and it pushes an attack line that the McCain-Palin ticket has been whacking at all week: mainly, that Obama's policies are socialistic, bad for these economic times, and destined to raise taxes on small business owners. At least two of those three claims seem recognizably baseless.

But Joe the Plumber hasn't exactly worked as a campaign tool for McCain. A Suffolk University poll of Ohio and Missouri released last week found only a handful of voters in those two states said that Joe Wurzelbacher's complaints about Obama made them more likely to vote for the Republican candidate.

The ad, according to the McCain campaign, will be televised in key states.

Comments

[peacegurl48]

The real average Americans (working poor/middle class) are invisible to the McCain/Palin ticket.

America is so much more than small business owners and corporations.

[PimpOmega]

So you're all tax-dodgers and unlicensed in your profession?

[Yve72]

The myth of Joe the Plumber has been demolished. Everything about him was a lie, so why is the McCain campaign still beat.ing a de.ad horse?

And these folks still say "I'm Joe the Plumber."
Come on now. Let it go, just let it go.

[enlighteninglad]

Remember, they all live in a delusion where Joe the Plumber is real and a patriotic American. They will never see the truth and John Mc will never tell it.

[HeyFella]

Ha ha ha ha...this is so DUMB.

[Charles1Goodwin]

Dumb and Dumber. I cannot the beleive all the crap the McCain campaign is throwing against the wall and hoping it will stick. How can anyone in their right mind think that he will lead as POTUS any better than he runs his pathetic campaign?

[bsc]

Only his scary supporters

[Openeyes]

It's idiotic. Run it everywhere, waste more money, put it into "key states" where every time you turn up the negative crap, your polling tanks - go for it John!

Anyone else find it ironic that the last time Republicans were associated with plumbers it was the Nixon team that burgled the Watergate Hotel? Those plumbers didn't work out so well for Nixon, did they?

[mdmpo]

Stupid.

[hadenough23]

Must see video on John McCain's tax policy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8EyGpOU3qM&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/

[Softnsweet]

Joe the Plumber is working for them. McCain has caught up in Florida. Obama is still using the same stump speech. Please change it.

[american2008]

Joe the plumber is working for them, yes he is, he's at the McCain headquarters uncloging all the BS stuck in their toilets!

[thefooligan5]

Negating the fact that if we were 'all Joe the plumber' the country would be backrupt for people not paying their taxes andin shambles because of unlicensed workers, the actors in this commercial are actually going to benefit from Obama's tax plan while their interests will again be ignored in favor of the people they are pretending to be in the advertisement.
And that is how irony can be bitter.

[supergranny]

"we are all Joe the Plumber" Translation:

WE ARE ALL REALLY STUPID THAT'S WHY WE SUPPORT THE GOP

[bsc]

right on! Their low income supporters are complete morons. The people who show up at those rallies are the dumbest people ever. They make middle america look soooo bad. I will never not live on a coast. too scary.

[bsc]

his middle america low income supporters all vote directly against their own interests- amazingly stupid

[whit4brains]

I'm not Joe the Plumber. I pay my personal income taxes and when I had my own business I had all the licenses I was required to have. I'm also intelligent enough to know that when making $40,000 a year I would benefit more from Obama's tax plan than McCain's. So please don't i.nsult me this way McCain!

[mrJJ]

GOTV for Obama/Biden

Jim Cramer: "Obama is a Recession. McCain is a DEPRESSION!"

What will New York look like a year from now? The answer: bad and probably worse, and perhaps downright catastrophic. Three degrees of awful. The first step was passing the bank-bailout legislation. Now that it’s done—and if it didn’t get done we would have been looking at a guaranteed economic collapse—the critical issue will be presidential leadership. And while any president will be an improvement over the current one, there is a growing belief on Wall Street that Barack Obama has the capacity to lead us out of this wilderness while John McCain does not. I’ll go a step further: Obama is a recession. McCain is a depression.
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http://nymag.com/news/businessfinance/bottomline/51007

Every single Republican & GOP McBush candidate on the down ticket during this election cycle must be voted down or out of office.

GOTV for Obama/Biden

[margardner]

A "MUST SEE" Video for all Republicans and Democrats: Regarding taxes!

http://www.dailykos.com/

[DrFrescas]

Dude, I wish I was a plumber that makes $250,000.

[whit4brains]

Joe (Sam) the plumber's helper makes $40,000 a year and doesn't even pay his taxes, which is why he has a tax lien placed on him.

[BETTERDAYSARECOMMIN]

McBush AKA Mc L i a r and his trusty side kick and VP choice Sarah McBlunder and his gang of thugs are gonna hit us with everything they have this month! We need to flood Obama's campaign through the home stretch with as much money as we can give through October. We all started very strong and now we all have to pick up even more steam and finish what we started, our families and our soldiers are counting on us to fight the good fight to the end! Let's continue making this about the Economy, Health Care, Equal Pay, Education, Etc and we will win this Election! My family and I are struggling like many other American Families, we have donated a $150 dollars every month even though we really cant afford it but if we lose this election to McCain, the loss will be much bigger. Even my thirteen year old daughter and my seven year old daughter are engaged in this Election and have took money out of their piggy banks to help invest into a better future for not just them but for everyone that believes in Fairness, Justice, Equality and Hope in America. I've always told my children, that the rule is in everything they do in life, you always start strong and you always end strong. Obama/Biden/08

VOLUNTEER AND GET OUT THE VOTE!

VOTE EARLY AND ABSENTEE VOTE NOW!

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http://www.barackobama.com/voters/

[SgtLucifer]

Too lame, too unbelievable. I could produce a better political ad, even without any formal training or education in advertising. How can McCain manage the country if he's unable to manage his own campaign?