Spotlight Lingers For 2008 Celebs

POLITICO:

To the bystander, the contemporary political campaign is a frightening juggernaut that careens unpredictably through randomly-chosen American towns; most bystanders manage to get out of its way, but some manage to jump aboard to be carried along for the ride -- think Joe the Plumber -- while others are crushed beneath its wheels.

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[Gup]

06:13 AM on 08/23/2011

err...why would I want to visit 'Politico'?

[XtfrM2]

06:04 AM on 08/23/2011

Only the Republicans could hold up Jamoke the Plumber as a paragon of American virtue. He's not even a plumber. Hilarious.

[desertdweller]

04:22 PM on 08/22/2011

Only in America are teachers bashed and people like "Joe" that barely, just barely, made it out of high school, are lionized.

[Steelerfanman]

03:50 PM on 08/22/2011

What? Joe the Plumber isn't the multi-millionaire dollar, plumbing business owner he was certain he was gonna be and that was afraid of getting taxed out of business by Obama? Thats shocking. This is why we have a Republican party. A bunch of delusional working-class people are certain someday they are gonna have the "American Dream" and magically become a millionaire.

[JessWonderin]

05:05 PM on 08/22/2011

same folks that buy three Lotto tickets . . . . .and vote to keep "millionaire taxes down"

[orbo]

03:35 PM on 08/22/2011

Joe the plumer should ask John Mcain for a job!

[TJ Logan]

03:34 PM on 08/22/2011

Every dog has his day.

Then the sun sets.

[tomt]

03:00 PM on 08/22/2011

Oh-h-h . . . no longer "Joe the Plumber . . . how about "Joe the Lunatic?"

[intolleft]

02:15 PM on 08/22/2011

You mean JTP doesn't have a pawn shop in Vegas?

[freegeg]

01:19 PM on 08/22/2011

Why did they leave out Peggy the moocher?

Peggy Joseph, thinks Barack Obama will pay for her gas, mortgage,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI

[XtfrM2]

06:05 AM on 08/23/2011

"Peggy Joseph, thinks Barack Obama will pay for her gas, mortgage"

Fail. You really do need to get some new material.

[IfIonlyknew]

01:06 PM on 08/22/2011

I would have sworn he would be a line manager by now.Or maybe a truck driver.

[scottishboy]

12:43 PM on 08/22/2011

Income re-distribution! That's a catchy phrase don't you think. And guess who is for it? It's not Joe BTW.

[Shewolf68]

02:30 PM on 08/22/2011

Defending JTP...who the hello in their right minds needs to defend JTP?

[scottishboy]

06:54 PM on 08/24/2011

We should defend his basic principle about income re-distribution. It fails every time and only makes for a less free society dependents on hand outs!.

[Steelerfanman]

03:53 PM on 08/22/2011

Yea its pretty obvious over the last 30 years where the money has been re-distributed. And it ain't 98% of the population.

[scottishboy]

06:53 PM on 08/24/2011

So, food stamps, welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, all the “departments of”, block grants to education, science, etc. don’t count?

[glace]

12:41 PM on 08/22/2011

To quote the great Jon Stewart > "Squirrel!"

[rainbow69]

12:39 PM on 08/22/2011

Joe The Plumber, a celebrity in his own mind, is now backing Cain, a fellow celebrity in his own mind. What I see: two losers.

[Shewolf68]

02:31 PM on 08/22/2011

He's doing it for the free pizzas.

He's here for what he can get from a rich black man!

Reverse Welfare I suppose!

[Shewolf68]

08:26 PM on 08/24/2011

He can't kick the 'Cain!

[TheLibraryOfCodex]

12:36 PM on 08/22/2011

Save yourself the trouble of waiting for 1000 plug-ins to load.

Basically Joe got fired

He wrote a book which sold only 500 copies and has been hanging around Herman Cain, the pizzaman.


And that's basically it.

[Shewolf68]

02:32 PM on 08/22/2011

A whole 500 huh.

Guess he can't really call himself a 'jobs creator!"

ha ha...JTP is just another poor dope.

[odalaigh]

03:44 PM on 08/22/2011

And those 500 were probably bulk sales to give away copies

[LMKay66]

12:34 PM on 08/22/2011

Joe the plumber a 2008 celeb? The media mantra: Take a national embarrassment and turn them into a celeb. Joe and Sarah Pa.lin are perfect examples.

[chloebe]

12:43 PM on 08/22/2011

You forgot to add the biggest celebrity of all to your list of national embarrassments: Obama.

[IfIonlyknew]

01:09 PM on 08/22/2011

Take that stupid sheet off.

[mmsuki]

01:21 PM on 08/22/2011

He's not an embarrassment to me.

[Shewolf68]

02:33 PM on 08/22/2011

That makes two full on idiots McCain buoyed to the surface.

I thinks me calls McCain a post modern traitor!