Republican Internet Fails: The 9 Worst GOP Attempts To Use New Media

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First Posted: 10-13-09 06:19 PM   |   Updated: 10-13-09 06:36 PM

On Tuesday, the Republican National Committee launched a new website -- with more than a few problems. It's not the first time the GOP has struggled with new media. Watch our slideshow of the worst Republican internet fails -- and vote for your favorite!

RNC Website Missing "Future Leaders"
 
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On Tuesday, the Republican National Committee launched a new website -- with more than a few problems. It's not the first time the GOP has struggled with new media. Watch our slideshow of the worst Re...
On Tuesday, the Republican National Committee launched a new website -- with more than a few problems. It's not the first time the GOP has struggled with new media. Watch our slideshow of the worst Re...
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- garymc8 I'm a Fan of garymc8 50 fans permalink
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gop Women of the future:
Palin: QUITTER
Whitman: ZERO VOTING RECORD HER ENTIRE LIFE. NEVER VOTED ONCE!
M.McCain: SPOILED RICH GIRL WITH A BLOG
Fiorina: DESTROYED HP AND WAS PAID 42 MILLION DOLLARS TO LEAVE!
L.Cheney:SPOILED RICH GIRL SHILLING FOR "KEEP MY DADDY OUT OF JAIL"
PROGRESSIVE AND INDEPENDANT PARTIES SHOULD SHOW SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN THE NEAR FUTURE. Having worked for a living my entire life I am repulsed by the spoiled rich kid do nothings who haven't the slightest concept of earning a real living, paying for higher education for your children, affording insurence or any other of the realities of life. The gop are CLUELESSLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH AMERICA.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:29 PM on 10/14/2009
- deeppeace I'm a Fan of deeppeace 55 fans permalink
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Don't forget the irrepressible Michelle Bachmann!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:23 PM on 10/14/2009
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The best part was that they didn't have a spanish only version of their website. Whoops! Got caught up in that 'real America' deal again, didn't cha?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:23 PM on 10/14/2009
- Ron44 I'm a Fan of Ron44 17 fans permalink

It failed just like everything they try to do!! They are just failures on the trash heap of history!!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:40 PM on 10/14/2009
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I found this one to be more funnier
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/3563/gopwebsite.jpg
You can see how the stars align on the photo.

Screenshot of the GOP website/

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:31 PM on 10/14/2009
- deeppeace I'm a Fan of deeppeace 55 fans permalink
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Bad idea. Don't stoop to their level.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:22 PM on 10/14/2009
- jweider I'm a Fan of jweider 30 fans permalink
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It's odd how the Accomplishments section touts the Liberal accomplishments of the past, but the Faces section talks about returning to conservative values.
The GOP is psychotic.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:54 AM on 10/14/2009
- MacManLB I'm a Fan of MacManLB 60 fans permalink
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It's called cognitive dissonance. And it is used to screw with the minds of lower level thinkers. Remember the slogans in Orwell's "Animal Farm". They would make subtle changes that had the animals scratching their heads. They went from "4 legs good, 2 legs bad" to "4 legs good, 2 legs better."

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 PM on 10/14/2009
- jsgaetano I'm a Fan of jsgaetano 216 fans permalink
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"The RNC's new website launched with a "Future Leaders" section that was completely blank."

That sounds to me like a rare instance of truth telling.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:43 AM on 10/14/2009
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The G0P just can't fig.g.er out this newfangled tecky-no-logey! Where can I go to see these here-now intertubies anyways?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:41 AM on 10/14/2009
- Nomccain I'm a Fan of Nomccain 38 fans permalink
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Really interesting and such a hypocritical site! The very idea of trying to use African Americans to promote a site when they're the most elitist, exclusionary party in existance! You have Rush Limbaugh, their primary spokesman these days, screaming how white kids are being beat up by black kids while trying to buy a pro football team when most of the players are black. Most people realize that the Republican party is primarily white, wealthy, and totally out of touch with mainstreet america and don't really care to listen to the majority of citizens. Instead, they listen to Glen Beck (another hatemonger), Ann Coulter (a crap stirring broad) and Shaun Hannity, (another Johnny come lately rabble rouser). They are a divisive party and NOT a unifying party as we have seen since the election, which they lost for good reasons.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:32 AM on 10/14/2009
- jweider I'm a Fan of jweider 30 fans permalink
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I seriously doubt that Susan B. Anthony would be associated withthe modern Repub Party. THe Modern Repubs would be against allowing women to vote.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:32 AM on 10/14/2009

Their red background and gold stars color scheme is similar to China's flag...Socialist China! The GOP=SOCIALISTS!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:30 AM on 10/14/2009

Wow, I checked it out. The "heroes" section is full of non-white people, are they over compensating a bit? I see Eisenhower and Reagan in there but Bush 1, Bush 2, and Nixon are missing, those are odd omissions.

Then there's Frank Johnson, a judge. First of all, judges should be about party affiliation, I find that offensive. Then there's this quote: "Johnson was a resolute foe of the Democratic Party's segregationist policies." Holy crap! Segregation is blamed on the Democratic Party?

The whole history section is a blatant attempt to revise history, full of distortions, half truths, and some outright lies.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:03 AM on 10/14/2009

Type: "judges should" was meant to be "judges shouldn't". Oops.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:06 AM on 10/14/2009

In the Civil War period and immediately after, the Republican Part was the "liberal" party, seeking abolition of slavery, while the Democrats were the "conservative" party of slavery. Gradually the parties changed places, a process that was basically complet a century later. The modern GOP is, as people often note, "no longer the party of Lincoln," being much closer to the Democrats of the 1860's who believed one man had the right to own another. The modern GOP don't advocate chattel slavery, but everything short of it: debt slavery, low pay and unsafe work, all to enrich the few.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:22 AM on 10/14/2009
- jweider I'm a Fan of jweider 30 fans permalink
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They also left out Gerald Ford because they didn't want anyone to think about Richard Nixon.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:44 AM on 10/14/2009
- garymc8 I'm a Fan of garymc8 50 fans permalink
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THEY CLAIM JACKIE ROBINSON WHO FOUGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR BLACKS HIS WHOLE LIFE.. Lying is their only value.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:21 PM on 10/14/2009
- Aaror I'm a Fan of Aaror 43 fans permalink

I don't think there was anything wrong with the future leaders site, they were being honest!
Well, mostly, instead of "site not found," it should have read "leaders not found," or maybe "Brains not found???"

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:39 AM on 10/14/2009
- JWB2012 I'm a Fan of JWB2012 10 fans permalink
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Left out the "b"...RepubliCANTs

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:32 AM on 10/14/2009
- JWB2012 I'm a Fan of JWB2012 10 fans permalink
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RepuliCANTs

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:27 AM on 10/14/2009
- Zen0469 I'm a Fan of Zen0469 71 fans permalink
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Michael Steele is missing his republikan leaders. Even his new website can't find them.

Talk about incompetence. That's Republikanism.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:12 AM on 10/14/2009
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