Has ';Joe the Plumber'; been an asset or a liability to the McCain campaign?

He's not even a plumber, or even an apprentice. And he is in no position to buy his own business as he pretended. His real name isn't even Joe, it's Samuel. And he is a tax evader. Why did they stick with such a bad and phony image for their campaign?Has ';Joe the Plumber'; been an asset or a liability to the McCain campaign?
Probably an asset, but only to the base.





Look at the facts....and in every way, this guy 'Joe' would do better under Obama.





He'd get a far bigger tax cut (since we know he made $42,000 last year).





http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con鈥?/a>





He'd be more likely to get health insurance from his employer.





Obama will put more muscle behind labor and trade groups....like Plumbers





When will he do better under McCain? If Joe wins the lottery, and that's it.Has ';Joe the Plumber'; been an asset or a liability to the McCain campaign?
Oh they ';think'; he's an asset but ';Joe the Plumber'; makes the McCain campaign look weak, ignorant and out of touch, a definate liability.





It is so ridiculous, an uneducated, multiple divorcee, someone who works as a plumber with no license, says he works 12 hour days but only made $40K last year, and is delinquent on his taxes AND now looking for a country music career?





Republicans, have you drunk so much of the NeoCon koolaide that your sensibilities are gone?
While Joe the Plumber has been funny to a lot of people he's also been a real non-issue. Voters don't care about some guy they're not even sure if he's real or not. A few duds out there think he's some real deal, but the guy he's representing isn't even the real deal so Joe, Sam or whatever your name is...go climb back under your Keating rock you crawled out from under.
mccain is a stand up guy





who is terribly concerned about hurting someone's feelings





he does not have the nuts to say that obama is bad for america





probably believes that most americans like the amount of socialism that we have





plumber guy is closer to most of us than mccain





and calls them the way most of us see them





anti-socialist, objectivist, gun-toting, mccain voting


redneck


looking to link-up with john galt
McCain was sticking to what he knows best: choosing people who are a liability.





It's more amusing how people think he was like a terrible shock to Obama's campaign. The man made a jackass of himself. He'll have his 15 minutes of fame and go back to being an ordinary ';Joe'; and a footnote to election history.
A bad and phony image is what the republican base appreciates. It reminds them of themselves. Trouble is, most of America and intelligent society hates it.
Looking at the way the democrats destroyed Joe in revenge for embarrassing Obama, you get a feel for how they will deal with dissenters if Obama is elected.
I thought Joe the Plumber was in the comic section of the newspapers.
Joe the Plumber was a McCain supporter all along...
He basically made a fool of the campaign. Now he has a book deal, and a recording contract.
';Joe the Plumber'; was a Republican plant and made the McCain camp look like the idiots they are!
An asset, he exposed Obama' socialist plan.
Just keep knocking him it just shows your fears of his effectiveness.
He was an asset and them came, Tito, Cory, Fat Albert, and his whole gang.
To try to get it through to non-voting school kids like you what an average American gets with obama vs Mccain
Big bomb for McCain. Him an Palin sunk McCain big time.
Just a big joke that certainly backfired, lol.
a push. Joe plays to McCain's base but has no resonance with anyone else.
asset for sure!!!