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News & ArtsWednesday, May 5, 2010
Politics Joe the Plumber...
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:32 AM
...is now an elected official. He's qualified, ya know, 'cause he wrote a book!
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I thought that guy was just made up by the McCain campaign. Sometimes I can't fathom that these Republican caricatures are actual people.
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He's just a precinct committee person (definitely not a paid position). All it means is he gets to vote at the county GOP meetings (with 400 other people, apparently). 9 times out of 10 county parties can't get enough people to run in a given precinct so anybody who puts their name on the ballot wins.
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An angry, unemployed guy who's not named Joe and is not a plumber becomes a hero named "Joe the Plumber" to tea-baggers everywhere...
Kinda sums up the entire confused and fucked up teabagger movement altogether.
Kinda sums up the entire confused and fucked up teabagger movement altogether.
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@4:
Yeah, PCO was what I got from that as well.
Hell, even I'VE been one of those! This is like, the lowest level elected position one can hold in a party organization, so it's not really like he's made a huge leap into the political arena or anything.
Wake me when get gets elected to a municipal sewer board or some-such...
Yeah, PCO was what I got from that as well.
Hell, even I'VE been one of those! This is like, the lowest level elected position one can hold in a party organization, so it's not really like he's made a huge leap into the political arena or anything.
Wake me when get gets elected to a municipal sewer board or some-such...
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He's qualified because he's a citizen.
Are only Democrats and liberals entitled to participate in the political process?
Are only Democrats and liberals entitled to participate in the political process?
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I understand being qualified for positions like President or (here in ND, where we vote for) judges, but lower level offices - even up to the House of Representatives and the Senate - don't require any qualifications besides being a citizen and over a certain age.
Good for Joe. I'd never vote for that moron in a million years, but that's the beauty of our system: we elect assholes to break stuff, then get to complain about it for the next two to four years.
Good for Joe. I'd never vote for that moron in a million years, but that's the beauty of our system: we elect assholes to break stuff, then get to complain about it for the next two to four years.
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