Joe The Plumber Might Run For Congress

Sam “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher received 15 minutes of fame when GOP presidential hopeful John McCain used him to portray President Obama as an enemy of the working man during the last presidential election cycle and now he may turn that 15 minutes into a run for Congress.

Speaking to The Ticket during an interview on Thursday Sam said of his run for congress:

“I’m not ruling anything out,” while adding that it would be an “interesting idea”

Wurzelbacher says many people have asked him to run for office, however he has spent much of his time recently on the speaker’s circuit.

Sam went on to add:

“I like the idea of it — just regular Americans running. If a regular guy runs, right away the media’s going to attack him,” Wurzelbacher said. “What kind of education does he have? What does he know about this? My answer to that is, regular Americans aren’t experts, but dammit, look where the experts have gotten us. Maybe we need some regular guys in there. That’s what I’ve been doing the past two and a half years, just encouraging regular Americans to run. Tell the liberal media to go to hell and I don’t care what you guys say about me, I’m going to try to fix this country.”

While the idea is not a bad one, Joe is hardly an “average joe” anymore, having spent the last 3 years speaking to groups of people with an agent by his side.

If Sam does run he’ll have to unseat a 30-year veteran in Marcy Kaptur who won 60 percent of the vote in 2010 and 74 percent in 2008.

Local Republicans currently say their is a 90 percent chance Sam will enter the race.