[More on the world's most famous plumber--other than Mario, obviously]
Eli recently claimed in a post that Joe the Plumber “can’t do any more damage than the rest of [Congress]” if he ran and were elected. Unfortunately, this isn’t true at all, and for a variety of reasons. First, because he is a conservative wingnut, and second because he’s woefully ill-informed when it comes to American politics. The two are probably related, but I won’t go there in this post.
If you’re a regular watcher of the Daily Show, you’ll have noted that the renowned “Joe the Plumber” has made the following the statements: “social security’s a joke”, “I wish our borders were closed”, and “because you’re successful you have to pay more than everyone else?” One could logically conclude from these statements that he wants to abolish social security (I thought Hoover was dead?), end all immigration to the US (this is pretty right-wing, even for the Republican Party, for, while maintaining an aversion to Mexicans and poor brown people generally, they don’t seem to mind rich Canadians), and instituting the ridiculous flat-tax. This pretty much encapsulates Mike Huckabee’s platform (except ending immigration was too far to the right, even for Mr. Let’s-get-rid-of-the-IRS). He also recently snubbed John McCain to pal around with be interviewed by the guy who wanted to quarantine everyone who has HIV or AIDS.