Joe Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the Plumber) now says that he was absolutely appalled after talking to John McCain on the campaign bus. I’d give him more credit for mental acuity if not for this:
Asked why he didn’t leave McCain’s campaign if he was “appalled” by the candidate, Wurzelbacher said, “honestly, because the thought of Barack Obama as president scares me even more.”
While Wurzelbacher was critical of McCain during the interview, he had nothing but praise for his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “Sarah Palin is absolutely the real deal,” he said.
However you want to interpret this piece of historical irrelevancy, it puts a nice capstone on the McCain campaign. No one I know could figure out what the hell McCain was thinking with his not-Joe not-a-plumber campaign. The whole thing was appalling…in the sense that it was such a gross insult to the collective intelligence of the American electorate. To discover that the mascot for the whole faux-populist fiasco was deeply offended by McCain as well? I guess that’s something like a seal of approval.
