Virginia GOP Chairman's Twitter Outreach: Massive Fail
The Republican Party's embrace of technology, which many inside and outside the party see as essential to a political recovery, so far is working out like...well, it's not working out at all.
Yesterday the Virginia GOP came very close to taking control of the state Senate, nearly luring a Democratic Senator to switch parties and put them at a 20-20 tie, which would have been broken by the Republican Lt. Governor. Then Jeff Frederick, a state legislator and the party chairman, ruined it all by Twittering this:
Big news coming out of Senate: Apparently one dem is either switching or leaving the dem caucus. Negotiations for power sharing underway.
The Dems then read the message, quickly mobilized to talk the renegade out of it, and stopped the GOP coup before it could happen.
We usually don't cover state-level politics, but this is just too much. Really, Mr. Frederick, you don't live-blog about ongoing secret negotiations!
(Via the Not Larry Sabato blog, and National Review.)
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LOL. First TN Repubs gives up its majority in the Legislature by kicking out the House speaker out of their party, and now this!
February 11, 2009 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
and then there's Hoekstra twitting away about his secret travels in Iraq
these jokers don't know the first thing about security
February 11, 2009 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Technology and republican could yet become an oxymoron.
February 11, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um. Haaaaaaaahahahahaha!
February 11, 2009 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
That name started ringing vague bells. And with good reason: this is the same twerp who pushed the GOP talking points about the similarities between Osama bin laden and Obama last fall.
YOu can't make this stuff up!
February 11, 2009 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the guy who got into trouble during the campaign for telling door-to-door volunteers in Virginia to draw parallels between Obama and Osama bin Laden because both had friends who bombed government buildings.
February 11, 2009 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, look at John McCain, supposedly the standard-bearer. Utterly clueless.
February 11, 2009 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
And these were the freaks who were so concerned about Obama's Blackberry??
February 11, 2009 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, not only is Jeff Frederick the Virginia GOP chair who equated Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden, he's also from my county, Prince William County, and was formerly a delegate to the Virginia General Assembly.
Earlier, Eric Cantor, House Republican whip, and also from Virginia, sent out a video response to a AFSCME ad that attacked certain Republicans. The video used foul language and portrayed union members as goons.
Hey! There's also George Allen...
I'm beginning to see a pattern....
February 11, 2009 7:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Prince William County? Isn't that Communist country?
February 12, 2009 8:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Aren't you guys being a bit harsh?
Are you saying that Republicans tend to be incompetent?
That they are slow learners?
That they just don't get it?
/irony
February 11, 2009 9:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait, I'm distracted by the fact that Republicans can randomly 'lure' Democrats to the other side despite the fact that they're incompetant motherf*ckers. What the hell?
February 11, 2009 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, what's up with that?
Can rats jump ON to sinking ships???
February 11, 2009 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
TWITTER! That's who they can blame for Eric Cantor's huge faux-pas. Listen, guys, don't let this go. It is the oily Canter that they are grooming for the next realistic presidential election. He is a complete dope. He is no smarter than "W." Listen to him the next time he gets a question -- he is completely inequipt!!!!!!!
February 11, 2009 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
We can only hope they want Cantor to run. He's the only person I can think of who would get stomped harder than Moose-a-lini would.
February 11, 2009 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to agree with this. Cantor is a total idiot and far from being the standard bearer of a renewed GOP. Most likely, he is the violin player on the Titanic.
February 12, 2009 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lol i think this can even be considered an Epic Fail. And someone has to do it...
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!!! FOR THE VIRGINIA GOP!!!!
February 11, 2009 11:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey he is on facebook too. Anyone want to be on his friends list?
http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=574366614&sid=c0b7fef17135908ba787c4315aa73390#/friends/?id=574366614
You cannot view all of his profile unless you send him a "friend request" (although you can see his picture if you click on his name).
Mr. Brilliant didn't make his list of friends private though. Some of them could be potentially interesting....hmmmmm?
February 12, 2009 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'd like to know who the unreliable Democratic Senator is.
February 12, 2009 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
One of Cantor's boys, no doubt!
February 12, 2009 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
“I'll press your flesh you dimwitted sumbitch! You don't tell your Pappy how to court the electorate." "We ain't one-at-a-timin' here, we're mass communicatin'."
-Governor Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel(R)
(dissing the The Soggy Bottom Boys outside radio station WEZY)
“Oh my yes, it's a powerful new force...”
February 12, 2009 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, I'm all for transparency. Much better than behind doors secrecy.
February 12, 2009 10:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Man, Frederick really puts the "twit" into "twitter."
February 12, 2009 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink