Oh, great... just what we need... ex donkey lovers, officials that think women compare perfectly with barnyard animals, and now this... what a collection.

I feel sorry for his congressional area.

Didn't we try this already with the Tea Partiers in Congress who screwed up our nation's credit rating and stalled our economic recovery by derailing a deficit reduction plan supported by both Party's leaders and NOT compromising on the debt ceiling?

I seriously doubt the American people are going to make that mistake again.

"The plumber - " known to his family as Samuel Wurzelbacher - " clinched Ohio’s Ninth District congressional race as a Republican. His next step is to defeat longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who also enjoyed a victory Tuesday, beating Rep. Dennis Kucinich. The Democrats had been forced to campaign against each other after their respective congressional districts were remapped into a single district, which now spans the shore of Lake Erie from Cleveland to Toledo."

Wurzelbacher's beholden to no political party, but running as a Republican because he needs to raise money to wage a serious campaign.

Likes Cain's 9-9-9 tax reform plan, "it's the key to prosperity and job creation".

Calls himself an outsider poised to fix government, which is riddled with dysfunction and ineffective career politicians.

Wants to dismantle federal bureaucracies and undo job-killing government regulations... singles out the Environmental Protection Agency, wants to strip the agency of its powers. "I drive a big Dodge four-by-four truck and I love leaving a carbon footprint wherever I go."

Second Amendment not only allows citizens to have guns, but requires it. "I think the way to keep tyranny at bay, or to keep an out-of-control government at bay, is to keep an armed populace."

Is Joe's state a homo right to work state I wonder?
Opps I looked it up if joe the not plumber finds out that his not assistant for the last 10 years has been secretly a mo, no problem OHIO has not protection to keep private employers from firing a tax payer, a non criminal from a job .
AIN'T THAT AMERIKU land of the free AIN'T THAT AMERIKUH

You know NIK you may be right I may be a part of a hate this AMERIKUH crowd. It won't be spelled right till it does right by being equal for everyone not just the extreme right.
Just a bit cranky this mornin!

Samuel started his public career with a lie wonder where it will end your right MrsK rights are bestowed at will that's why they are grants not rights!
When it's a subject of the will of the people it's a
accommodation, a grant an amends for previous bad behavior of the state, it's emotionalism.
Well at least OHIO has public employment protection Georgia doesn't even have that nor does that other bastion of equality Louisiana.
I'm sure Joe is a swell guy & I wish him well in exposing himself.

Joe the Plumber GOP sacrificial (and not-so-innocent) lamb is looking to expand his 15 minutes of fame.

I don't intend to divert this thread, but Joe might want to wonder why people need to carry guns when they go shopping or leave them in a vehicle with children. Two days ago, in Washington state, a man was in a local Walgreens, supposedly reached into his rear pocket to get his wallet, and the gun he was carrying back there went off, hit a light fixture and something else, but, thankfully, not a person. The same day, I think, in another small town, a police officer's child was shot and killed when his other child accidently shot his brother with a loaded gun left in the police officer's private vehicle. The officer and his wife were near the car and heard the shot. Very tragic. But, we have to be armed to keep those bad guys from taking our stuff. Or for whatever reason people feel so scared that they have to bring a loaded gun with them to go shopping.

There's a huge difference between all these "basic stupidity/lack of common sense" stories and the safety and responsibility utilized by people who are conscious of what guns can do and treat them as such.

This guy, Joe the not plumber, hasn't a clue.