Joe the Plumber and the Debate

John McCain evidently did as well as he can do in the debate last night (which is not that well). However, he received a big boost from Joe the Plumber.

 

Yes, Joe the Plumber is the guy who so threw Barack "World" Obama off stride, that Obama was honest about his tax proposal.  Obama admitted to Joe that his tax increases on the "rich" are designed to redistribute wealth (take from the "rich" and give to the "poor"), rather than to raise revenue for the Federal Government.  There was never any doubt about that, since at least half of the "95%" of Americans to whom Obama says he wants to give a "tax cut" now pay no tax to cut.  They just get a check--money that Obama wants you to think is "taken from the rich". 

 

Then Joe the Plumber made the media rounds and explained conservatism--including the evil of class warfare--better than McCain ever has.  He actually said that he did not understand why a person who makes a million dollars should have that money taken away from him to give to someone else.  And he seemed to understand, as I doubt McCain does, that when you take the million dollars away you do not end up with more revenue in the end, because people then have every incentive not to earn a million dollars and even more incentive to figure out a way to avoid having their money confiscated in taxes.  That is in addition to the damage that you do to the economy in trying to "redistribute the wealth".

Yes, Joe the Plumber actually understands this redistribution of wealth is socialims/Communism.  He probably even understands that the people on Wall Street are now Communists, along with our Treasury Secretary and Fed Chief.  See my entries over the past several weeks.

 

Yep.  Unfortunately, Joe the Plumber would be a better candidate for the Republican Party than John McCain.  Whether he knows it or not, Joe the Plumber is a Rush Limbaugh conservative rather than a John McCain/establishment Republican, Big Government conservative. See my entries yesterday.  At the very least, Republicans need a nominee that can actually understand and speak for someone like Joe the Plumber, instead of a nominee who is forced to rely on Joe the Plumber to make his case for him.

 

I am glad people like Joe the Plumber exist in America, and I think there are a lot of them.  I just wish that the Republican Party represented those people, and spoke for them well.  It does not.  That is why I no longer call myself a "Republican".

 

P.S.  No, I did not watch the debate last night.  As I have told you, these debates are unimportant (absent a truly major gaffe, which no one makes anymore).  The aftermath of the debates sometimes matters, and Joe the Plumber may matter here by providing McCain with a conservative "message" he has not been able to articulate himself.  That is because McCain is not really a conservative.