Monday, April 06, 2009
Evening Joe
For my sins, I just spent a few minutes watching Joe the Plumber in conversation with Bill Maher. And guess what: he (Joe) is not dumb as a box of nails. Well, maybe he is dumb as a box of nails, but he seems to have had a bit of basic briefing lately, and a few lessons in presentation. I'm not for a moment predicting what the future holds (Palin/Plumber in aught 12?). But lots of political wonders come from nowhere. We have not heard the last of this guy.
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The problem isn't that he's necessarily stupid in the sense that he can't process basic thoughts. The problem is that he believes in nonsensical ideas like the Fair Tax, a la Huckabee, and that he doesn't seem to be intellectually curious enough to find out why those ideas might be wrong or how they could be modified enough to be improved.
I also suspect that his whole regular guy routine is really more of an act that anything else, something that he is milking to build a profitable image. This might be making a lot out of nothing, but among other things, he is always in the same style of clothes. Most people, were they to be making a scheduled appearance on a national show, would spend the necessary time to put on a pair of dress pants and an ironed shirt, and perhaps even a tie.
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