Game Changer

Joe Wurzelbacher aka Joe, The Plumber IS the game changer.



Whether the game changes enough for McCain to win the election remains to be seen.



In last night's debate, McCain cited the example of Joe, The Plumber to hammer Obama's economic policy.



At a time when the economy is in the toilet, Obama ("Senator Government" in the Freudian sense) will raise taxes, kill jobs, increase spending, and redistribute the wealth by spreading it around.


McCain: "In other words, we're going to take Joe's money, give it to Sen. Obama, and let him spread the wealth around.
I want Joe the plumber to spread that wealth around. You told him you wanted to spread the wealth around."

McCain: "I will not stand for a tax increase on small business income."

McCain: "why would you want to increase anybody's taxes right now? Why would you want to do that, anyone, anyone in America, when we have such a tough time, when these small business people, like Joe the plumber, are going to create jobs, unless you take that money from him and spread the wealth around.
I'm not going to..."

McCain: "McCain: The fact is that businesses in America today are paying the second highest tax rate of anywhere in the world. Our tax rate for business in America is 35 percent. Ireland, it's 11 percent.
Where are companies going to go where they can create jobs and where they can do best in business?
We need to cut the business tax rate in America. We need to encourage business.
Now, of all times in America, we need to cut people's taxes. We need to encourage business, create jobs, not spread the wealth around."


McCain: "Sen. Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago. I'm going to give a new direction to this economy in this country."



McCain: "OK, what -- what would I cut? I would have, first of all, across-the-board spending freeze...Government spending has gone completely out of control."



McCain: "The mayor of New York, Mayor Bloomberg, just imposed an across- the-board spending freeze on New York City. They're doing it all over America because they have to. Because they have to balance their budgets."



McCain: "Sen. Obama, your argument for standing up to the leadership of your party isn't very convincing."



McCain: "And, Sen. Obama, you didn't repudiate those remarks. Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them. I hope that Sen. Obama will repudiate those remarks that were made by Congressman John Lewis, very unfair and totally inappropriate"



McCain: "And, Sen. Obama, when he said -- and he signed a piece of paper that said he would take public financing for his campaign if I did -- that was back when he was a long-shot candidate -- you didn't keep your word."



McCain: "So the fact is that Sen. Obama is spending unprecedented -- unprecedented in the history of American politics, going back to the beginning, amounts of money in negative attack ads on me."



McCain: "Yes, real quick. Mr. Ayers, I don't care about an old washed-up terrorist. But as Sen. Clinton said in her debates with you, we need to know the full extent of that relationship."



McCain: "We need to know the full extent of Sen. Obama's relationship with ACORN...The same front outfit organization that your campaign gave $832,000 for "lighting and site selection."



McCain: "Well, again, while you were on the board of the Woods Foundation, you and Mr. Ayers, together, you sent $230,000 to ACORN. So -- and you launched your political campaign in Mr. Ayers' living room."



McCain: "Obama chooses to associate with a guy who in 2001 said that he wished he had have bombed more, and he had a long association with him."



McCain: "By the way, when Sen. Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Canadians said, "Yes, and we'll sell our oil to China."
You don't tell countries you're going to unilaterally renegotiate agreements with them."



McCain: "Well, let me just said that that this is -- he -- Sen. Obama doesn't want a free trade agreement with our best ally in the region but wants to sit down across the table without precondition to -- with Hugo Chavez, the guy who has been helping FARC, the terrorist organization."



McCain: "Sen. Obama, as a member of the Illinois State Senate, voted in the Judiciary Committee against a law that would provide immediate medical attention to a child born of a failed abortion. He voted against that.



McCain: "We have to stop the spending. We have to stop the spending, which has mortgaged your children's futures".