A tax dodging liar, and a chicken McNegative flier....

So, by now we all know that Joe, the plumber who told BO he earned $250K/Year, and wanted to buy his boss's business, but was worried by the level of tax he’d have to pay under an Obama presidency, isn’t called Joe at all, he’s called Sam, and he doesn’t earn $250K/Year, but $60K, and he isn’t a plumber (licensed anyway), and apparently never planned on buying his bosses business. Hell! It even turns out he’d pay less taxes under BO’s plan, but the bloke’s not bothered by that because he doesn’t even pay the fucking taxes he’s supposed to, the dick owes back taxes!

Sadly, I can’t say that I was particularly surprised by any of the revelations. I mean they didn’t vet their vice presidential pick, so why bother checking out some unlicensed tax dodger in the woods of Ohio? Anyway, a trifling insignificance such as the truth isn’t gonna get in the way of McGrumpy telling what he thinks is a great story.

The exposure of Joe-Sam’s potpourri of falsehoods hasn’t dulled McGrumps enthusiasm for claiming Joe-Sam speaks for all real Americans. He mentions the bloke more often than Giuliani mentions 911, and is even running a series of TV commercials telling us how great Joe/Sam is, and how all real Americans are like him.

Maybe his point is that real Americans dislike taxes so much, they just don’t pay them! Instead, they leave it up to fake Americans to pick up the bill for all the schools, hospitals, fire trucks and the fucking bridges they drive over on the way to their unlicensed work.

But, does McCain really believe that real Americans are like Joe-Sams? We‘ve long known that truth is a cheap commodity for the McCain campaign, and maybe I’m just being politically naive, but surely they could’ve come up with a better roll model? Perhaps coined a story that was at least loosely based on the truth.

Still, I guess I should be happy that the McCain campaign is about the most dis-organized in history, lurching from one confusing non-message to the next. This week, they have a lying tax-dodger as their Ohio pin-up, and the chicken McNegatives flier campaign going on in Arizona. Bring it on!