Joe

If they can do it to Joe, they can do it to you. How would you like everything about your past posted on the Internet? Let's say you had a messy divorce a few years back, or got in a tight spot and couldn't pay a bill or two. Would you like that broadcast for everyone to see? This is where Joe 'the Plumber' Wurzelbacher finds himself. Why? Because he had the temerity to ask the question and voice his opinion:



The key phrase was "spread the wealth around." This might be the gaffe that turns the election around. The inadvertent socialist "outing" resulted in Joe the Plumber becoming a focal point of the final debate between McCain and Obama and has been front and center ever since. While the outrage of a hard leftist/socialist/Marxist being this close to the Presidency of this great democratic Republic is tough enough to bear, the disgust I have with the thuggery exhibited by the press in their attempt to destroy Joe is nauseating. This kind of public humiliation strategy is for one purpose only - to silence dissent. On 9/11 we were all New Yorkers...in the wake of this repulsive Marxist attempt to silence debate, we are all Joes!

This shows us in frightening relief what will be in store during an Obama Administration. Fear, intimidation, the very same tactics used by ACORN with their employees:

Today's New York Post:

Pushed to meet daily quotas and bullied by bosses if they didn't, Ohio ACORN workers faked voter registrations, signed up people more than once, and even paid off registrants to keep from being fired, its canvassers told The Post.

"Every day, there was pressure on us. Every single day," said Teshika Elder, a Cleveland single mom of three who worked for ACORN this summer.

"We had meetings every morning where they'd go over your quota; they'd yell at you if you were low," said Elder, 21. "They'd sit us down and say if you didn't do better, they'd suspend you. They'd say, 'Try harder next time,' [and] if you didn't get it, you'd be fired."

Desperate canvassers sometimes resorted to trading cigarettes, cash and food in exchange for registrations, according to Elder and two other former ACORN workers, Jaymes Sanford, 18, and Selvin Cunningham, 23.

Some voters were signed up more than once, and said that worried - or lazy - canvassers sometimes filled out bogus cards.

Where does one learn these types of tactics? It's all in the "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky...have a read. A Republic survives on the education of its people and the willingness to speak their minds for what is right. If that fundamental right is abrogated by intimidation, we cannot long survive. As one of my fellow bloggers, Iowahawk, discusses in a piece he wrote over the weekend - we should demand the same treatment Joe got be given to everyone in the media that participated in that lynching. I would settle for Obama getting the same treatment and seeing how many minds would be changed.

Rumble on!