They're saying that Joe isn't a real plumber because he doesn't have an Ohio state license and isn't in good standing with the plumbers' union local. But let's face it, Joe's the only person ever to unclog the pipe that leads from Barack Obama's soothing rhetoric to his dangerous socialist philosophy.
 

Joe demonstrated his ability to get the job done when he seized the opportunity, while Obama was sauntering down his middle-class Toledo block, to get in the candidate's face and demand a candid answer to a simple honest question about Obama's proposed Robin Hood income tax policy.

"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" Joe the Plumber asked.

It is ironic that the RNC and the McCain Campaign were never able to figure a way to get Obama's water to flow clear. But that's because they never called in a real plumber. Instead of getting someone like Joe they relied on patriotism and maverickism -- the rhetorical equivalents of Drano -- when getting down and dirty with a roto-rooter would have worked much better if begun earlier.

Sweaty-brow Joe Wurzelbacher (his full name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher), who is accustomed to having his licensed plumber boss require fast, paid-by-the-minute residential performance, cut right to the chase...er...clog.

Obama and his surrogates are now trying to spin the Joe the Plumber Story away from its true importance; showing the candidate for what he really is -- a tax-and-spend liberal who would ultimately love to redistribute hard-working citizens' wealth just as it has been done by socialist regimes since the days of Lenin and Trotsky.

A Democrat Party talking point emphasizes that "Joe the Plumber owes $1,182.98 in back Ohio state income tax." All the more reason for a guy like Joe to wonder what an Obama administration might do to him tax-wise.

Even Joe the Commuter, Obama's VP candidate who never misses an opportunity to stress his blue collar Scranton heritage, is demeaning the collarless assistant plumber/would-be plumbing company owner just for being in the right place at the right time to embarrass Obama and earn his own fifteen minutes of fame in the process.

One of the best jokes I've heard during this long campaign came from an angry Democrat strategist on the panel of a Hannity and Colmes TV debate segment.  "Joe the Plumber, like Sarah Palin, was never properly vetted by the McCain Campaign," the high-strung Obama shill protested.

As if the DNC had thoroughly vetted Barack Obama prior to his rhetorical rise to being their under-qualified standard bearer.  As if Democrats knew anything whatsoever about their candidate aside from his liberal voting record and that which he had written about himself in his two self-aggrandizing get-rich-quick autobiographies.  As if Joe the Plumber had been relocated, by the McCain Campaign, to that block in Toledo the night before just in case Obama were to show up.

In the end, therefore, it could be Obama's un-vetted questionable associations and lack of mature judgment that keeps him out of the White House. But an upset McCain victory is more likely to occur as a result of Joe the Plumber throwing his monkey wrench into the Obama Campaign.

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