Top Ten Reasons Why The GOP Website Relaunch Is Fizzlin'

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. In a section devoted to "future leaders," there were none.

9. In the subsequent rush to get up a "future leaders" page, they choose "you."

8. The last GOP accomplishment cited on the accomplishment page was from 2004.

7. The what's up page -- hip! starts with this sentence: ""the internet has been around for a while now"

6. Administrator passwords were accidentally posted.

5. When the RNC hosted a kick-off conference call, the website was down.

4. The website cites Jackie Robinson as a GOP hero. Robinson wasn't a GOPer, and he criticized the GOP on race. Robinson left the party because of its views on race. He had been, as a reader points out, a Republican for many years.

3. The first question on the conference call was from an Hispanic Republican who asked why the GOP site didn't have a Spanish-language page and noted that the White House had one.

2. Bragging about web redesigns is so 2004.

1. It's not timed with the start of any major advocacy campaign -- or political campaign. And it portrays itself as something it's not: diverse and ready to embrace new ideas. That may be what the party leadership aspires to, but, at least when it comes to diversity, a few pictures of Hispanics and African Americans doesn't make up for ... well, the history of the party.


http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/10/top_ten_reasons_why_the_gop_website_relaunch_is_fizzlin.php

Link has other links with examples and historical facts

[opihimoimoi]

1. KnR :o)

Their tactics suck....

[ccharles000]

2. lol

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. The passwords were cached and shown on New York Daily News site

In their haste to get their new Web site up and running, the Republican Party has posted online a slew of things you wouldn’t normally expect.
Such as instructions on how to operate the Web site.

In checking to see who was in the New York State section of the site, (in addition to the other gaffes people have noted) we noticed three members. One was the “rnc-admin.”

Curious, we clicked. And there, we found, and downloaded, the “ForumsAdministrationDocumentation,” the “ForumsUserGuide,” and the “Admin_Guide,” among other things.

Oh, and Chairman Steele? You might want to have someone change that gmail account log-in and password






Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/10/gop-posts-passwords-admin-inst.html#ixzz0TtX6JaPr

[zbdent]

4. 11. The Indian company the coding was outsourced to didn't understand

the English-only instructions ... and they speak ENGLISH!

[SpiralHawk]

5. Good little Republicon sheeple follow their Chickenhawk 'leaders'