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

[dzuh]

Well, the Republican Party's metaphorical toilet IS backed up: it's filled with four decades of crap that they can't seem to flush down.

[awckid3]

metaphorically speaking, of course

[RexPrimoris]

How incredibly appropriate that a plumber attempt to reverse the GOP's descent into the toilet of irrelevance. Hope Joe is bringing a big plunger; the pipes are seriously clogged.

[dutchess2]

Is there an adult in the republican party that will admit that Joe the Plumber is the measure of how old, sick, tired and useless was the entire McCain campaign that he was grabbed onto like
a floating log in a whirlpool?

[MJinCanada]

How very euphemistic.

[HHarvey]

This is good news for the dems. All my friends and family members who were fiscal conservative republicans have told me they will definitely stay away from their party during the next elections if this guy continues to be the face of the party. They are thoroughly disgusted.

[Bompa]

They do take such pride in their stupidity.­.........i­t is so entertaining to watch!

[NoSillyName]

Oh, joy. JTP survived his stint as a "war reporter".

And they say BHO has no experience.

[ezbreezer]

Hope he brings his roto-rooter. Someone needs to clean out the conservative constipation. They've been backed up for years.

[Cynth]

This is plumbing the depths of stupidity, desperation, and tone deafness. Even if this is a stunt, the Republicans have learned nothing from the last election and heard nothing of the message the people have sent them. It's the blind leading the blind. If they're dumb enough to seek strategic (or any) advice from this guy or seek to associate with him, then they deserve the consequences. It'll keep things moderately entertaining 'til 2012...esp­ecially if they get him to run for elected office of some sort.

[levibatgirl]

GOP = Stuck on stoopid.

[wilray]

I say they've captured the market on stupid.

[PatForObama]

Here's a suggestion, HuffPost: put all mention of Joe the Plumber, Palin, Limbaugh, etc. in the entertainment section. Or maybe create a new one called Extreme Views. We don't need these characters to be on the home page. Not to worry, advertisers; we'll see your spots when we turn to trailin' Palin for some comic relief.

[dillydawg]

'Joe The...' hat is sad about this is that MSM chooses to report on this guy.

[liberalgirly]

Another one bites the dust.

Thought this was cute.

http://theliePolitic.com/2009/02/what-did-george-w-bush-do-wrong/

[Bendersky]

My favorite part from Gaza was when he was flagging down a near by Israeli news crew by saying, "Hey, you want a story? There's a story over here. You want a story?" Then when they came over--not knowing who the hell he was--Joe started out by saying, "First of all, I'm a common man just like everybody else." High comedy.

So repubs, keep turning to people like Palin and Joe the P. and uncle Karl and Rush and Kristol for your policy advice. Pul-lease.

[AllieEsq]

The Republican party is becoming more desperate everyday. If I wasn't disgusted by their behavior over the last decade, I might actually feel sorry for their pathetic attempts to find themselves. What's next? David Duke to take over!

[StillIRise]

David Duke is already threatening to destroy the Republican Party because they elected Steele to head the RNC.

[1differentdrummer]

He's the R party's hope for the future.