I want this man to run for elected office. Please GOP, make it happen.

[TheCowsCameHome]

This idiot on the ballot would be a dream come true.......

........for a Democratic opponent.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/20/joe-the-plumber-tells-conservatives-hes-horny/#comment-2498746

[graywarrior]

1. I find him thoroughly disgusting

[BrklynLiberal]

4. He does kind of look like his picture should be in the post office...if you get my drift.

[graywarrior]

6. Unfortunately, his picture emits a drift causing me to think I'd better check the

bottom of my shoe.

[BrklynLiberal]

11. LOL

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Joe for President

Or, if Steele gets the boot, Joe should be the head of the GOPigs.

He's even got a bit of that porcine look down, sort of like a :::: gasp :::: young Rush.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I LOVE Matt Taibi. Have you seen his latest Rolling Stone article?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Isn't he great?

Now, I'm off to Rolling Stone to get it. Thanks for the heads up!

:toast:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. Do you have a link for Matt's article?

I'm at the RS site, and they've moved him around, but the latest I can find is his piece on Blago.

HELP!!???!! Please?

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Matt Taibbi has done the unthinkable- namely, gotten me to start buying Rolling Stone

for the first time since the late 1980s.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. I bought a couple of his books -

collections of his essays. They are wonderful. He's inspired, and when he lets it rip, there's no one better these days.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Here is a link to the Rs article. It is fantastic, mindblowing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. Thank you so much!!!!

I can't figure out how to get there from rs.com.

Thank you a whole lot!!!

[BrklynLiberal]

14. You are welcome. I wish I everyone in the country would read it.

[Taverner]

5. Be careful what you wish for

Seriously

Imagine if he was an Ohio Senator...

[BigAL23]

15. What a tool

This clod used up his 15 mins of fame a long time ago.

[Historic NY]

16. Did he get enough money yet to buy a plumbing business?

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. He got a standing ovation?

[Telly Savalas]

18. Fuck that noise.

If the GOP continues to be the champion of the clueless bastard, then there's very little pressure for the Democrats to govern effectively. They need only use "hey, at least we're not as bad as that dumbass" as their campaign slogan and they win elections without bothering to tackle our nation's problems. Or worse yet, they lose and we get stuck being led by total idiots. (Read newspapers from the last eight years if you've forgotten how that works.)

We'd be much better off if the GOP ditched the knuckledraggers and the extremist ideologues and moved towards becoming a mainstream party which had its own set of ideas for promoting good government. Granted, this would be a slow evolution, but our nation's progress will continue to crawl at a turtle's pace when one of the two major parties is institutionalized wingnuttery.

In other words, when the GOP is the party of Joe the Plumber we're either faced with the unpleasant scenario of a one party state, or the even scarier scenario of a far right party being competitive in elections and taking power.