Angry old man, stuck like a broken record, becomes laughingstock. Amy Sullivan in Time:
In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver for Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg's focus group were "audibly snickering" at John McCain's grimaces, eye-bulging, and repeated references to "Joe the Plumber."
Jane Hockeymom was probably picturing Joe the plumber's hairy butt-crack peeking at her from under her sink, instead of Lars the pool-boy she could've been watching if only the wealth would have been spread around a little more.
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