Even Nixon's plumbers were less dirty

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo posted this over on his blog today October 16, 2008.

Remember John McMuffin's newest bff, Joe the plumber?
Turns out, he's also the bff of the Charles Keating family.
Wotasuprize!!

From Martin Eisenstadt:

Turns out that Joe Wurzelbacher from the Toledo event is a close relative of Robert Wurzelbacher of Milford, Ohio.
Who’s Robert Wurzelbacher?
Only Charles Keating’s son-in-law and the former senior vice president of American Continental, the parent company of the infamous Lincoln Savings and Loan.
The now retired elder Wurzelbacher is also a major contributor to republican causes giving well over $10,000 in the last few years.

Does any of this make Joe the plumber a bad guy?
Of course not.
In fact, after that ill-fated night at the Watergate, he may finally be giving plumbers a good name.

[ed. note: thanks for ruining our joke, Martin!]

But at a debate where John goes full bore on Obama for guilt-by-association with William Ayers (and dodges a bullet by Obama not mentioning Keating Five), the press is going to bring it back front and center by midday tomorrow once they delve deeper into the most popular plumber in america.

As they used to say in our neighborhood, smooth move exlax! way to remind everyone that you've been involved in major economic scandals in the decades.

Addendum: Johnathan Martin says the Toledo Blade is reporting that Joe isn't licensed to be a plumber, and has a tax lien.
So apparently McMuffin vetted his "regular Joe" as well as he did his veep pick.

*****

He says McMuffin, I say McPain but, either way he is still a joke.