November 1st 2008

Quote Of The Day: Tightening Polls Edition

“Joe the Plumber may get his license after all.” - Pollster John Zogby


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n the final days of the campaign, the numbers are closing, with Zogby - who skewed toward Kerry in 2004 - summarizing his most recent results with the quote above, and:

“Is McCain making a move? The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama today, 48% to 47%. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all. “Obama’s lead among women declined, and it looks like it is occurring because McCain is solidifying the support of conservative women, which is something we saw last time McCain picked up in the polls. If McCain has a good day tomorrow, we will eliminate Obama’s good day three days ago, and we could really see some tightening in this rolling average. But for now, hold on.”

Independents = the wiggle room in a tight election. They were leaning Obama before, now they’re leaning McCain.

Blue collar voters = the target of Obama’s tax cuts, and they’re not buying it. They are worried about their jobs and are wary of the disruption Obama’s economic plan will cause - and lots of them dream of being rich one day and don’t like Obama’s disincentives.

Investors = McCain’s on the right side of what’s become the critical question of the campaign: Who do you trust to fix the economy.

Men = Is anyone surprised? Anyone? Anyone?

Women = We’ll forgive any conservative women that were leaning towards Obama. Welcome back; we’re sorry for your terrible experience.

If McCain has a good day tomorrow = The media is full of stories on Obama’s aunt’s illegal status, bringing the long dormant immigration issue back. Good for McCain.

Ah! The gut-wrenching angst of an incredibly close and important campaign!

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October 17th 2008

Joe’s Ad

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othing the Democratic party does surprises me any more, as long as it’s something nasty. They’ve shown their worst ugliness in their response to Joe the Plumber and millions of straight-thinking Americans are very angry - as the polls show.

To tap this anger and shame the Democrats, I offer up for free this ad for a conservative 527’s consideration. It features Joe the Plumber in the same setting that made him famous, his front yard, cut with insets of Obama talking about him at rallies:

Hi. I’m Joe the Plumber. As you know, I recently had the opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question about the economy that was very important to me. Boy was that a mistake.

Since then, Obama and Joe Biden have been mocking me at campaign rallies and people there have been booing me. Democratic operatives have been digging through my personal life, and the media is investigating me like they never investigated ACORN or Bill Ayres.

Despite all that, I still have one more question to ask: Why would you vote for a party that would attack a guy like me for just asking a question?

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October 16th 2008

Quote Of The Day: Joe The Plumb-Crazy Edition

“It is astounding that Joe Biden, the self-adulated ‘everyman,’ can’t believe that an American making less than $250,000 a year might still be opposed to socialism.” - McCain campaign spokesperson Ben Porritt

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orritt was responding to Joe “Foot in Mouth” Biden’s attempt today to trash Joe the Plumber.  Here’s what Biden told a national TV audience this morning:

“We’re worried about Joe the guy who owns the gas station, the barber, the grocer.  Ninety-eight percent of the small business people in America make less than $250,000 a year, and they’re going to get a real break under our plan. Joe the plumber, whose making over $250,000, is not going to get any more additional tax cuts with us.” (ABC)

Yeah!  That’ll teach that SOB plumber to be successful!  That’ll teach him to employ people!

Despite the rantings from the left (read the comments with the link above for a hefty dose), Joe the Plumber (and Joe the Plumb-Crazy) have been a big net loss for Obama and his Robin Hood tax plan.

The bottom line - and McCain/Palin should be saying this at every whistle stop - Obama thinks he’ll be better at spending your money than you’ll ever be, so he wants you to fork it over.  Even in these times of economic uncertainty that are screaming for slashed spending, Obama’s credo is, “Because big spending on government programs hasn’t worked out too well, we’re going to try spending even more and see if that works out better.”

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October 16th 2008

Say It Is So, Joe

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canning the home page of Real Clear Politics this morning, I find 11 references to Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber. It just might be the most significant news day of the campaign, the day a plumber from Ohio ushered John McCain into the White House.

McCain has been ineffective thus far in his efforts to paint us a picture of the real Obama. He’s terrified of being called racist, so he’s completely backed off from Obama’s 20-year worshipping in Jeremiah Wright’s black liberation church. He’s made Ayers a discussion of associations instead of one on education policy. He has barely worked the Obama-ACORN-Fannie-Freddie association for what it’s worth. It’s not surprising the smiling cypher from Illinois is ahead.

Then along comes one man with the guts to get in Obama’s face like McCain should have, not taking the glib “don’t bother me” answers Obama gives, and pushing, pushing, pushing for the truth until Mr. Smooth finally delivers it: 

“I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

McCain didn’t press as hard as he could or should have, letting Obama slither away from the hard hits, but it didn’t really matter because John had Joe in his corner. Look at that mug! That’s a guy you want on your side: Tough, straightforward, no nonsense.

(By the way, free advice to Joe: Don’t worry about who gets elected; buy the company. After last night, when you rename the company “Joe the Plumber” and put your mug on the side of all the trucks and in all the ads, you’re going to have more business than you can handle.)

Joe has focused America on Obama’s tax and spend big government welfare wet dream in a way McCain has been unable to do, which is why Obama’s minions are scared - very scared - of him.

The NYTimes editorial page somehow managed to conjure up the idea that McCain referring to Joe was “nasty.” Huh?! Heck, you can even buy a “Joe the Plumber for Obama” T-shirt, another leftist lie in immoral service to The One.

Joe is definitely not for Obama, as he told the Toledo Blade last night after the debate:

Mr. Obama didn’t win Mr. Wurzelbacher’s support on Sunday, and he didn’t change his mind last night.He did allow, “Obama, you can’t take away that he’s a damn good speaker.”

Overall, though, Mr. Wurzelbacher was pleased with Mr. McCain’s performance.

“McCain was doing much better this time,” he said.

“McCain came across with some solid points. I like his tax cuts.”

But he said Mr. Obama’s health-care plan scares him.

“It’s just one step closer to socialism,” he said.

According to Nexis, this morning there are 168 MSM news stories this morning about Joe the Plumber and the debate - and that’s not counting most broadcast and all radio outlets. It does include the wire stories that are being read in smaller papers all over the country this morning.  Joe is news.  Joe crystallizes the issues. Joe speaks to America and for America. Let’s hope that he’s OK with having his mug splashed over coast-to-coast TV ads for McCain for the duration of the campaign.

UPDATE:  Ask and you shall receive.

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Just one word of warning: You know what the left is going to say next. Uh-huh, you’re right:

Joe the Plumber was the estrella of last night’s debate, with his name being thrown around left, right, and sideways. CBS interviewed the man of the hour, Joe the plumber and it turns out he’s kind of racist, no? I mean I know “tap dancin around an issue” is a figure of speech pero then when he adds the whole Sammy Davis Jr. line into it, no se, it kind of takes it to a different level.

Or as Talk Left hopefully (prayerfully, if they believed in such stuff) put it:

Bye, Joe. I think your 15 minutes are up.

They will try to embarrass Joe into hiding because they know Obama can’t stand up to him. They cannot be allowed to slime and lie and character-assassinate their way out of this one.

(By the way, how many famous white tap dancers can you name?)

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