Scott Chaffin, aka The Fat Guy, in comments here:
Ummm...JTP ***IS*** the fookin' economy.
You bet your ass he is. And you know there are a whole hell of a lot more out there just like him. I know one personally, although he builds houses as opposed to unclogging drains. For the life of me I can't understand why the supposed undecideds might brand the whole Joe the Plumber thing as a distraction. I'm betting — or hoping, at least — that the great untold story of this election will be how Obama and his allies (and yeah, that includes the jackals in the media) blew the election by alienating one way or another the people who might have voted for them. On one hand, you have Obama himself belittling Joe Wurzelbacher with comments such as "how many plumbers do you know making a quarter million dollars?" (Actually, he doesn't and never said he did...) On the other hand, you have the press sliming Joe the way they did, which I would think is going to push a lot of the undecideds toward McCain.
Speaking of the jackals in the press, Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee discusses an interesting tactic some other bloggers are going to take — basically giving them a taste of their own medicine. Maybe it is controversial, and some might see it as stooping to their level, but as the old saying goes, any chair in a bar fight — or, as the old rule for gunfighting goes, the only fair fight is the one you lose. Hell, maybe if they could get a taste of their own medicine they'd get back to doing their jobs as opposed to flinging mud at average Joes who ask embarrassing questions. Hey, average Joe, reminds me of a song...
"I'm a welder in the shop downtown, the dry waller in your brand new house, yeah, I'm your Average Joe...I'm the guy that fixed your van, I'm the painter, I'm your concrete man, yeah I'm your Average Joe..."
Come to think of it, welders, drywallers and mechanics make damn good money too...
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