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In a move I will describe only as decidedly weird, Gov. Frank Cotton today has come forward with an offer to pay Joe the Plumber’s back taxes.
The move is a transparent one. Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher, the plumber who questioned Obama about taxes in Holland, Ohio, turns out to owe back taxes and not hold a license for his plumbing work, according to news reports. He has been ripped apart by the media since becoming the focal point of the debate between John McCain and Barack Obama.
On Tuesday, Gov. Cotton said this: “Mr. Wurzelbacher has been brutalized by the candidates as many have been brutalized since this race began. I just feel we need to start taking care of each other when we can instead of sacrificing our fellow Americans to this savage run to the White House.”
As a political ploy, it’s not a bad one. McCain and Obama selfish and mean, it seems to say. Frank Cotton, generous and giving.
But there are just three weeks to go, Frank. I suggest you might need something more than a wrench man on your side to pull this one off.
