In a bid to retain some relevance with middle America, the Republican ticket– led by that two-headed beast McPainin– has discovered a long-overlooked demographic that they’re now mining for votes: Average Joes.
So far, Sarah has spoken frequenty of her being a “normal Joe Sixpack American“, while John has found his new BFF, Joe the Plumber, whom he mentioned more than a dozen times during the debates last night, as someone who would supposedly be affected by Obama’s tax proposals.
But it turns out that ’ol Joe (Wurzelbacher, not as McCain called him, “Wurzburger”) not only doesn’t like to pay more taxes – he doesn’t like to pay taxes at all: he owes Ohio nearly $1200 in state taxes.
And then there’s the bit of a vocational problem: seems he doesn’t actually have a license to plumb – and didn’t even realize that he needed one.
Nor is he apparently serious about buying out his boss’s business, which according to records pulls down just $100,000 in gross revenues — not the $250,000 profits that Joe was oh-so-worried about. So in short, none of the claims that McCain made against Obama, using his pal Joe, turn out to carry water.
So who’s up next? Joe Schmoe and Joe Camel?
