Repubs Stinkin' Up The Web

Actually, when all is said and done, the Republicans have a fair shot in 2008 - of totally avoiding a disaster, anyway. But their grasp of new media and the roll it can play still stinks. And I don't believe it is going to improve significantly for some years. It'll take a continued loss of power and an entirely new generation of players to make it happen.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 — It used to be that when a campaign had an argument with a news report, it put out a mass e-mail message disputing the offending item. That was a huge technological leap from the fax machine.

Now even e-mail may be growing quaint.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign on Thursday introduced a Web site dedicated exclusively to the instantaneous rebuttal of charges or news reports it deems offensive or wrong.

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[Philip McDaniel]

Sort of like Barbara Streisand ane her "Truth Alerts" ...

[IslamoLlama]

"the Republicans have a fair shot in 2008"

Are we going to see a Macaca resurgence? Really? Ah, Dan. The eternal optimist.

[JR]

((((Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign on Thursday introduced a Web site dedicated exclusively to the instantaneous rebuttal of charges or news reports it deems offensive or wrong.))))

On one hand you could look at it as a progression in understanding the Web. Or, you could look at it from the perspective that Hillary Rodam Clinton is so often over the line of propriety, that a whole new level of deniability is required. I think the latter more than the former.

[BobInStamford]

The Mike Huckleberry/Fred Thompson ticket will be the biggest duo to come out of the back woods since Bo and Luke Duke! Watch out, pinkos and troop-haters!

[Alan Srout]

Former Senator Fred Thompson is the only candidate that gets it. He makes decisions based on principles. Principles don’t change. You have to stand for something and not change who you are based on the polls. That is what Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have done and all of the Democrats do it. Give me a leader that will stand by his principles anyday versus someone that stands for everything.

I know many Republicans and conservatives that will stay home if Rudy Giuliani is the candidate. He does not represent our values as conservatives, and never will. Millionaire Mitt Romney is a Republican-in-name-only (RINO ) that simply has everything else and nothing to do. “I guess I’ll just try to buy the presidency”. The White House isn’t for sale! Conservatives will simply stay home and the Democrats will pick up additional seats in the House and probably get the 60 seats in the Senate they need to completely destroy our Country. Nice picture huh?

However, I think Fred can bring America back together, if that’s even possible. America needs a rebirth of patriotism and honor. Republicans also need a rebirth. President Reagan was our last rebirth and he can never be duplicated. Fred Thompson will bring his own down-to-earth common sense to this country. If a conservative runs as a conservative, he will win!

Think of it this way: Eight years of another Clinton White House? Now if that is not a sufficient enough reason to pull together as a nation, and fight this socialist liberal takeover of our government, what is?

Folks, we are in for the fight of our lives, just as our young men and women are fighting for our freedoms in Iraq and Afghanistan, we must fight for our nation right here and now! I truly believe Fred Thompson is the one man who can pull this nation back together! Rudy Giuliani will just tear us apart.

[templar knight]

chris/boob, are you ignorant, or just stupid? Mike Huckabee and Bill Clinton both come from Hope, Arkansas. Are you saying Bill Clinton is from the back woods? Since he and Mike are from the same place, logic dictates that both must be from the back woods if one is. Get it?

Oh, excuse me, that logic thing always trips up you goofs on the Left.

[BobInStamford]

Thompson is a lazy old geezer and Huckleberry is a bible-banging yahoo. If they were running for the presidency of Redneckistan, they would win easily. Sadly (for them), they aren't.

[IslamoLlama]

"Or, you could look at it from the perspective that Hillary Rodam Clinton is so often over the line of propriety, that a whole new level of deniability is required. I think the latter more than the former."

Well, of course you would, JR. But then you're probably one of the guys still trying to find the missing link that connects Hillary Clinton to the brutal slaying of Katherine Willey's cat.

[BobInStamford]

I hear that Vince Foster's pet goldfish died suddenly. Sounds suspicious...

[templar knight]

Wow, a couple of "Dick" Tracey's....uh....well, a couple of dickheads(Islamoboob and chris/boob) put their minds together and came up with a couple of "funnies". Ha...ha...You boys? are a real couple, now aren't ya?

[seekeronos]

What Alan said.

Because out of the raft of other "conservative" GOP candidates... Fred Thompson is the most consistently conservative.

Not a flip-flopper to make liberals happy like Mitt, not a cross-dressing freak like Rudy, not a whacky conspiracy theory barker like Ron Paul, and not a fanatical open-borders/big government spender like McCain.