"...the people who identify with Joe are the Republican base. They can’t turn this thing around. And they’re certainly not the people you’re supposed to be talking to in October. It’d be as if Barack Obama were criss-crossing the country with a young, hip lesbian acting as his main surrogate to attack McCain’s health care plan."Coates adds:
"I think it comes from drinking your own Kool-Aid. To these guys, America is still Joe the Plumber. This is why you hear them disqualifying whole swaths of the country with phrases like "the pro-America parts" or "real Virginia." They have mistaken their little retreat in the forest, for the forest itself. Is it not a good thing to live in a democracy? Every four years you get to show your leaders exactly who you are."What does it say about our political dialogue that “Joe the Plumber” (a) isn’t named Joe, (b) isn’t a plumber, and (c) doesn’t make nearly as much as he said he does? And people still take him seriously?
Source: Andrew Sullivan
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