Is Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher really quitting the Republican Party? That’s what a new Time article on the current sad state of the GOP says.
“Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so outraged by GOP overspending, he’s quitting the party — and he’s the bull’s-eye of its target audience,” the article says.
Mr. The Plumber has been a figurehead among Republican activists since last October, when a chance encounter with Barack Obama and the active promotion by McCain campaign turned him into the face of blue-collar conservatism. If he’s not willing to call himself a Republican, they’re really in trouble.
But even here on spending, there’s a catch when it comes to the ideological purity: “But he also said he wouldn’t support any cuts in defense, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid — which, along with debt payments, would put more than two-thirds of the budget off limits.”
Huh???
