Shoot the Mexicans, says Joe the Plumber

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Yeah, so you remember how John McCain and Sarah Palin and pretty much every other Republican drooled over Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher as a voice of good ol' middle American values, how he became a staple on the right-wing media circuit, and how he became a prominent Republican himself?

Well, he's running for Congress in Ohio's 9th district, going up against incumbent Marcy Kaptur, and he's still spewing the good ol' Republican views that made him famous. Like this gem, at a campaign event for a fellow Republican in Arizona on Saturday:

I'm running for Congress. How many congressmen or people running for Congress have you heard, put a fence up and start shooting? None? Well you heard it here first. Put troops on the border and start shooting, I bet that solves our immigration problem real quick.

That's right, he said U.S. border guards should shoot Mexicans trying to get into the country. Even if you think undocumented immigration is a serious problem, this is fucking insane.

But, then, what do you expect from Joe the Fucking Plumber?

I look foward to Republicans distancing themselves en masse from their beloved everyman.

But even if they do, the question remains: do they disagree with him?