I was going to hack the GOP website and they done and did it for me so I have no job to do (post all the admin stuff). That’s no fun!

Also, to my SS and RCMP/CSIS watchers: this was a joke. I am not in any way planning any illegal defacement of any governmental/political party website.

The Libertarian Party obviously drew away all the competent rugged individualist sysadmins and Webmasters, leaving the GOP with the dregs.

Not that <a href=“http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-gopcom-web-design-proposal-crap-2009-3”> got the re-design off to an auspicious start, even by the standards of conservatives:

Red State’s Erick Erickson is a bit circumspect, but see if you can suss out his take on the RFP by reading through the lines: “[T]here is no way any competent person would put together an RFP like this. It’s crap. It is not legitimate. It is unprofessional. It is illusory.” The RFP is all buzz words—“Flash,” “widgets”—but little in the way of specifics. No matter: the RNC wants all bidder to attach a firm price tag to their proposals.

Any techie reading the actual RFP presented in the article will recognise it as the product of a trend-obsessed client who doesn’t know what the heck he wants, but wants it within a month and a half at fixed cost, damn the scope creep.

The white guy says ___,
the black guy says it like ___,
and the Mexican guy says ___,
the Hindu guy says ___,
but the Chinese guy says it like ___!
Isn’t that funny!!!

See?  Everybody can be a Republican!...

http://hammerandsteele.com/?u=www.revolutionmessaging.com

As we used to say ...just go.

Michael Steele is so the gift that keeps on giving.

what kind of nut puts the username and password in an electronic document? above and beyond all the other levels of wrong there, that means that you have to refresh the document every 3 months (or as often as the password changes).... or you’ll have people using outdated information and locking everyone out of the system (ok, maybe not on g-mail, but on most professional systems).

lesson 2? never launch a half-done page without at least putting “coming soon” placeholders all over so people don’t mock that there are no GOP leaders…

Michael Steele’s blog, which is not-at-all-insultingly-named “What Up?”, because Michael Steele is apparently your black neighbor on an 80s sitcom.

At times like this I seriously wonder if Michel Steele is being played by Sacha Baron Cohen.

Does Michael Steele’s blog feature a shot of him in a fat suit and wearing a red beret?

Because that would be so rad for the retro theme that he and the GOP are apparently shooting for now.

http://hammerandsteele.com/?u=www.revolutionmessaging.com

Oh god, that site is so “Help us Obi Wan Kenobi!  You’re our only hope!”

Republicans suck but they are good for a laugh.

At times like this I seriously wonder if Michel Steele is being played by Sacha Baron Cohen.

My theory has always been that the old white neoCons and moneyCons who really run the GOP are using Steele as a stooge and patsy for the party’s declining fortunes and serial election failures. It’s the easiest thing in the world for the Partei to “blame the black guy” when it comes to explaining its failures to the base. All they had to find was a willing Uncle Tom who wasn’t as crazy as Keyes, so MC “Wasssuppppp?!” Steele it was. And whatever his race, it would have been difficult to find a more incompetent political leader than Steele, who couldn’t even hold his own against pop stars on a talk show panel.

Luckily, someone captured the new GOP.com on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKz6qdexetY

They need to find someone with more “street cred” like, oh, say Tony Shaloub playing Adrian Monk. Him or Richard Simmons.

Any techie reading the actual RFP presented in the article will recognise it as the product of a trend-obsessed client who doesn’t know what the heck he wants, but wants it within a month and a half at fixed cost, damn the scope creep.

You mean they aren’t doing the standard “no bid” deal for somebody’s hunting buddy?

The man is a delight. I always felt they elected him in a fit of what I call Sergio Georgini-itis.

Michele Bachmann needs to be the first to comment on Steele’s “What Up?” blog…

You be da man, Michael Steele, you be da man!

Yes!  He is the Rerun of the aughts.  Bring on the rainbow-colored suspenders, Raj, and Dwayne!  You can leave Dee and Shirley at home; Michael Steel is all about men, no gurls allowed. (Shit.  Did I just switch decades?)

What’s Happenin! by “Super Fly” Steele would be a good title.

You mean, retro as in In Living Color? Ohhh, I can’t wait for the Men On Politics feature, starring Lindsay Graham!  And the catfight between Star Parker and Michelle Malkin to decide who gets the flygirl dance solo!

...because Michael Steele is apparently your black neighbor on an 80s sitcom.

That’s what he wants to be. Specifically, he wants to be once of the appoximately 2,500 wise uncles who traipsed through the Huxtables’ house in “The Cosby Show,” which had black people that Ronald Reagan could respect.

I just tried to login to comment on Steele’s post using my OpenID from Wordpress, and got this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function login_open_id_finalize() on a non-object in C:\Webs\www.gop.com\AuthenticatedUser.php on line 253

I was gonna tell him what a ridiculous douchebag he is, and to suck my ass.

That Sacha Baron Cohen, he’s one busy guy.  Michelle Bachmann, Orly Taitz, Glenn Beck, and Michael Steele?  That’s a lot of work.

So….What Up pandagoners?

Sorry, it just felt funny to do it in my head with his voice.

This is really a thing with the Republicans, isn’t it? At least I don’t think they tried to give Condi Rice a ebonics voice, but they love trying to paraphrase Obama into slang and get Steele to jive talk for them. I think it has to do with a resentment of dignity? And maybe because Rice was a woman and therefore automatically not as good as a man in their minds, she was allowed to present herself to her full education?

It’s probably more to do with Rice actually being an evil genius than a woman. I recall often thinking how awesome she’d have been if she hadn’t chosen the dark side.  She didn’t have to serve as the Republican party’s full-time token because she had real work to do as one of the few Bush people who were capable of actually doing their job.  I’m also not so sure Steele is hiding his light under any bushel - if he is, then his role in the RNC is the best damn piece of performance art ever.

Aw, he changed the name to “Change the Game.”

At least he hasn’t changed the best line from his first entry: “Why are you a Republican? Think about that for a minute.”

Shhhhh! Michael, they’re not supposed to think!

Incidentally, I propose that henceforth, Steele’s blog shall be referred to as “Change the Name.”

But they’re winning at Twitter

I predict the day when winning at Twitter will be the new jumped the shark.

(And I said that not out of disrespect for Twitter, but rather the Republican use thereof, which reminds me of nothing so much as a middle-aged parent [of which I’m one] trying to communicate with their kid in lol-speak.)

And maybe because Rice was a woman and therefore automatically not as good as a man in their minds, she was allowed to present herself to her full education?

I think that Condi Rice simply has too damn much class and pride to do this shit.  Given her wealthy background, I don’t think anybody would buy it anyway.

“Why are you a Republican? Think about that for a minute.”

Wow.  That’s daring.  Maybe they are continuing their quest to drive thoughtful people from the party, no?