The stranger elements of the left have been suggesting that Joe the Plumber was a plant. That he was put in place by the Republicans to sabotage the Obama campaign.

Leaving aside the role that randomness played in Joe getting to ask his question and the fact that there would need to be hundreds if not thousands of such plants all over the country waiting for chance to strike, my question to left is, So What?

Let’s assume for the sake of sheer batshit crazy fantasy that there are thousands of GOP plants in every state in the nation (all 57 of them). They are part of a vast GOP network and they get alerts on their cell phones for when The One is going to be in their area. Their assignment is to be where The One is and hope they get the chance to ask a tricky question.

(There’s a whole separate network assigned to do the same with Joe Biden too. That’s how we got the “We’re not supporting clean coal” video.)

So let’s assume Joe is one of these operatives - hell assume that I’m one even though I don’t like John McCain and don’t want him to be president. Joe got his alert and got him self in position to complete his mission. And he succeeded. He got to ask Obama a trick question about why he wants to tax people for being more successful.

Even if the GOP did all that (and I don’t think they’re that smart) They didn’t write the script for Obama’s redistributionist response. That was pure unrehearsed, unscripted, unteleprompted Obama. That was the core belief of The One on display.

The left and the media (there I go repeating myself) don’t want you think about the thoroughly Marxist nature of The One’s response and his beliefs. So they have gone after Joe the Plumber.

The thing is Joe the Plumber doesn’t really matter in all of this. It could have been Tom the carpenter. It could have been Sally the lawyer. It could have been Susie the reporter (well maybe not her).  What matters is that The One approaches tax policy, government and the presidency with a philosophy that says is good when government spreads the wealth.

Private citizens spreading their wealth by hiring other citizens or investing in other citizens not so good.

Government with your money = good. You with your money = bad. Or if you prefer, “From each according to his ability. To each according to his need.”

When the next alert hits my phone that The One is going to be in my area I’m going to be there. Ready with my trick question. (Note: I don’t have any tax liens. My profession does not require a license. I got a ticket for running a red light recently and a couple of tickets in the past for driving without my seatbelt. I am on the record, on this site, that I think either McCain or Obama as president would be bad for America.)

My question for The One: Why do you think it is right and good to take money from people who have worked to earn it and give it to people who have not?

Wish me luck.

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