Joe the Plumber's lecture to Republican congressional aides raises vexing "why the fuck is he lecturing Republican congressional aides?" question

You know, Joe the Plumber and his unrelenting lunkheadedness has been a great source of humor for me and readers of this here blog, as well as millions of other clear-thinking Americans, both on the right and the left of the political spectrum. I mean, the guy has proven himself time and time again to be a solid first ballot entry into the Buffoonery Hall of Fame, a being that seems not so much real and human as he does like a fictional character from a Mike Judge movie. Yet the longer he hangs around, the longer he is propped up by the powers that be within the Republican political machine, the more it becomes evident that perhaps he wasn't just a campaign tool (pun intended) for use by John McCain and Sarah Palin, and the more it becomes evident that, well, HOLY SHIT THEY TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY!

Case in point...yesterday Joe the Plumber, freshly returned from bringing peace to the Middle East through his insightful "journalism," was invited to Capitol Hill, CAPITOL FUCKING HILL, to give advice, ADVICE, to young Republicans over breakfast. From the NY Daily News...

His advice, essentially, was to take no prisoners in standing up for their beliefs.

“It’s not politically incorrect to say you’re Republican or conservative,” Joe said. “They need to dig their heels in and fight for what needs to be done.”

And no reason to be subtle, he said, as long as folks inform themselves. “I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white,” Wurzelbacher explained. “There’s right and wrong.”

One thing that needs to be done, he said, is killing this stimulus package, because it’s just another example of “American government” — Republicans and Democrats — “kicking our butts left and right.” He also called it welfare.

But wait, he wasn't done yet...at some point someone asked JTP about the possibility of him running for office in the future...

I don’t know if the American public deserve me.

Yeah.

Now, it's easy to read this and yuck it up and take shots and all that kind of stuff, and yeah, I do find it all to be so very hysterical. Impossibly hysterical. But there's another part of this that is so tragic and disturbing...the fact that some people in leadership of the Republican Party take this tard seriously. I mean, this wasn't some local party chapter meeting held in a VFW hall he was featured at...it was a speech/lecture given to the people who advise some of this country's most powerful people! This is awful beyond words. Despite philosophical differences, we need two strong parties filled with men and women of intellect, courage, and fresh ideas to survive as a nation.

How the fuck did the Republican Party allow itself to become hijacked by the lowest common denominators of American political life?