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Joe The Ineffective

By The Daily Dish
Nov 4 2008, 2:37 AM ET

Yglesias doesn't understand why McCain spent so much time with Joe:

...the people who identify with Joe are the Republican base. They can’t turn this thing around. And they’re certainly not the people you’re supposed to be talking to in October. It’d be as if Barack Obama were criss-crossing the country with a young, hip lesbian acting as his main surrogate to attack McCain’s health care plan.

Coates adds:

I think it comes from drinking your own Kool-Aid. To these guys, America is still Joe the Plumber. This is why you hear them disqualifying whole swaths of the country with phrases like "the pro-America parts" or "real Virginia." They have mistaken their little retreat in the forest, for the forest itself. Is it not a good thing to live in a democracy? Every four years you get to show your leaders exactly who you are.

As I said: the grave-digger, with less wisdom. But one day, we'll remember him as hilarious (and kinda hot in a Zionist pseudo-plumber way).



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