How geekless is the GOP?

[elfs]

So, the Republicans, in order to prove just how net-savvy they are, have been trying out various intiatives on the 'web. The "rebranded" the GOP.org website in order to make it cool, including having a Flash-app of Michael Steele walking out and saying, "Now how cool is that?" It's not very cool, Michael; obstructing the view went out with the 90's.

Apparently, they secured the address "GOP.am," and while throwing around ideas some bright spark said, "Hey, you know those URL shortener things, like bit.ly? What if we put up one of those? But instead of being a redirect, we'll make it a frame, so you can put wrap Republican messages around whatever page we redirect too. That'll show those folks just how cool and technological we can be!"

Oh, the places you'll go...

I especially love the "Do you think Sarah Palin is?" question on this GOP-wrapped screenshot of sex.com.

This one's for Larry Craig, Bob Allen, Glenn Murphy Jr., Jim West, Jeff Gannon and Mark Foley! (Man, how sad is it that I can remember all of those? I'm totally wasting those brain cells!)

Pssst. Republicans, wanna know something? Wrapping someone else's site in your branding frame is about as rude as pissing on your neighbor's lawn. It, too, went out with the 90's.

Comments

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Be careful? MOST of the GOP is technically illiterate. A very select few are VERY net savvy, and they're the dangerous ones. The folks behind the tea parties and all the behind the scenes mechanics of the entire tea party movement are a prime example?

The tea party movement was planned as far back as 2005, possibly farther, since that's when all the web domains were actually purchased. The actual planning probably went back even further than that. A few of the web domains were purchased the regular way, but anything after 2007 was purchased via anonymous domain resellers.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if it's just me, but using Firefox 3.0.16 on Ubuntu Intrepid, when I go to http://gop.org, I get redirected to http://www.gop.com/, then to http://www.gop.com/index.php/site/roadBlock/, then back to http://www.gop.com/, then back to http://www.gop.com/index.php/site/roadBlock/, et cetera ad infinitum.

I think that the (mis) use of stupid redirects in a circular fashion so as to make your entire website inaccessible sort of beats annoying useless flash or frame abuse, hands down... :-)

// FvW

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I don't know if there's a mechanism for a site to find out if it's running inside a frame, but if there is there's scope to have some fun with this.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Rick Santorum!