Sometimes we feel bad for member of the Republican party. Because a few staunch albeit intelligent members of the GOP (like the formidable Melanie Morgan), not to mention plumbers, deserve better than this:

"Queer" means strange and unusual. It's not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. You know, God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for.

I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing. -- Joe the Plumber (Samuel Wurzelbacher), speaking at a book burning, or negro lynching, or something like that

Wow. What a truly horrible human being.

Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, responded to the piece of trash, saying, "It would matter if Joe the Plumber mattered."