Joe The Plumber To Talk Strategy With Luckless Conservatives

Gah, this guy again. Samuel J. "Joe the 'Plumber'" Wurzelbacher, freshly returned from bankrupting Pajamas Media with his "I Don't Know, Maybe Journalists Should Shut Up, Or Something" tour of Israel, is now going to be meeting with the Conservative Working Group, making working for the Conservative Working Group the worst possible job anyone could have this week.

Hilariously, the people who serve on the Conservative Working Group don't seem to want to do much Conservative Working, since Joe's appearance is billed as an incentive to keep everyone from sleeping in:

If nothing else, GOP aides are using the appearance to get staffers to attend the 9 a.m meeting.

"In case you weren't planning to attend CWG tomorrow morning, you might want to reconsider because Joe the Plumber will be joining us!" Kimberly Wallner, an aide to South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, wrote in a message to her e-mail list this afternoon.

Anyway, we are told that Joe is not a "fan of the economic rescue package," so, woo: there's some real high-wire opinioneering, right there. He'll probably say that the media shouldn't talk about the economy any more, or math, and that maybe Paul Krugman should do more to help people with their digital TV conversions.

Anyway, how dull is this guy? Consider this. The article that reports this news in Politico begins with the sentence, "Fresh off his stint as a war correspondent in Gaza, Joe the Plumber is now doing political strategy with Republicans," and ends with the sentence, "Last month, Wurzelbacher did a brief stint as a war reporter for the conservative web site pjtv.com." Normally, you'd wonder where the editor was, allowing the double mention of "stint," but your eyes just glaze over, thinking about this guy.

Comments

[jinjinpinti]

I like it. The flusher leading the flushed. So appropos.

[fireW]

The GOP values the advice of a lying fraud. Now, there's someone they can truly relate to . . . Exactly how pathetic can you get?

[NWRICK]

Your post indicates that the "GOP" and "lying frauds" are two separate entities.
Was that your intent or am I just stuck in smarta$$ mode? That happens to me when talking about this clown.

[jdfast]

He fits in perfectly with SP and their new party chair. They have not a clue that the times have passed them by as a party of the Old White Men. You have three clueless people hoping to help more clueless people. Wonder how many books SP and JTP have read total. I bet you can count them without taking off your shoes.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Palin to discuss safe sex, sure...

[NWRICK]

Now that is genuinely funny!

[JungleRoses]

A former Tweaker and Plumber running the GOP? Now that's News

[NWRICK]

Former? You may be a bit generous. : )

[ChicagoSuz]

You would think the Republicans would've learned their lesson about using "Plumbers" from Watergate. We all know how well that turned out.

Carry on... ;-)

[VeroucaSalt]

Well you know, that makes sense. They went from college dropout K. Rove to Plumber wannabe. Perhaps, considering the direction the GOP is headed, a plumber is just the guy for the job ;)

[Boboday555]

Republicans:
"We're about as popular as heprpes these days so who should we hire to fix the image that all neo-confederates are uneducated ditch digging morons?"

The GOP:
"Ummm...how about this Joe the Plumber clown? Sure he's not really a plumber and is not really a political expert but he sure does make Rush Limbaugh's loins quiver whenever he walks by."

[scorpioleidy]

The GOP does realize that Joe & Sarah helped them LOSE in November ... right?!

[robiform]

I don't think they've come to that realization--didn't a plurality of GOP voters say they want someone like Sarah Palin as the next Republican presidential candidate?

But that's OK--it means that the Democrats will have even more success in November 2010!

[scorpioleidy]

Yup-yup! More seats for us in 2010!

[InspiredByTruth]

Why do rethugs think parading around this buffoon somehow makes working people think better of rethuglicans?

Do they think Joe the Plumber counter-acts all the bad blood they've ginned up by insulting unions who represent working families? At one point they even tried to blame the economic crisis on union people making middle class wages.

Seriously, who are they trying to impress??

[oldtimer0872]

Why all the fuss? With an I Q probably somewhere in the 80s, he has to be one of the smartest Republicans i know.

[omobob]

Political advice from a plumber who wouldn’t know socialism if it fell on him. What’s next vegetarian cooking recipes from Alaska Barbie. Pathetic yet wholly believable. lol.

[TheNovak]

I'm starting to feel bad for Republicans.

Well, in the same way you feel bad about a deranged serial killer who's been captured, incarcerated, and put on death row, and who's now degenerated to the point of sitting alone in his cell, making shadow puppets and reading "The Little Engine Who Could" seven dozen times per day.

[MJinCanada]

Dave?

[jinjinpinti]

For a complete folie a' deux, pair him up with Annie Coulter and let the good times roll.

[december30]

I get such a laugh when I read comments on the Huffington Post articles. But the comments on this article are just hilarious. To all of you commenters, thank you for making my day.