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The New GOP.com Crushed Under Weight Of Mockery, Dem Says
Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 13, 2009, 2:34PM
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The new GOP.com appears to be struggling through its first day online. Reporters found holes in the site's content this morning, and lately visitors have found the site to be down altogether or, at best, extremely slow.
"You know your web program is in trouble when your site can't even handle the traffic bump from people making fun of your web program," Joe Rospars of Blue State Digital told TPMDC.
Rospars helped craft the Obama Internet strategy as director of new media for the campaign.
The RNC did not respond to a request for a comment.
Late Update: Over at LiveWire, Rachel catches Michael Steele's response to the controversy. Steele to critics of GOP.com: "It's not even really a website."
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Chris
October 13, 2009 2:51 PM
Luckily for the GOP they can just add this to the list of things that never happened.
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mike from Arlington
October 13, 2009 2:55 PM
I get errors with internet explorer.
You think they would have tested it on multiple browsers.
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Cy Guy
October 13, 2009 3:01 PM
Try here: http://our.gop.com/app/render/go.aspx?xsl=tp_community.xslt
And then clicking the button labelled "HOME" at the top, that worked for me. WARNING: miniMe version of Michael Steele will walk onto the screen and start talking to you.
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BoomerEsq
October 13, 2009 3:07 PM
While I agree the website is horrible, it is rather spurious to claim the outage is due to "mockery" and dubious to have this criticism come from the developers of the President's web presence.
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Walker
October 13, 2009 3:09 PM
I heard Steele had teamed up with the DNC: http://hammerandsteele.com/?u=democrats.org
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Sinfonian84
October 13, 2009 3:28 PM
Among the "holes," I wonder if any reporter found the historical error I discovered right on their Flash banner the moment I arrived.
Seems a little embarrassing to royally screw up the name of one of their "heroes," don't you think?
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planetspinz
October 13, 2009 3:37 PM
Hey you can start your own blog
http://our.gop.com/app/render/go.aspx?xsl=tp_community.xslt
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Jaybird
October 13, 2009 3:45 PM
Nice one sinfonian. I definitely like the "what up" section by michael steele. Well, i would if the website was running. But damn, the GOP is so whack that they can drop the "'s" on "what's" if they feel like it yo. werd.
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Dave Bowman
October 13, 2009 3:53 PM
All I can see their favicon in the URL bar, LOL.
Maybe the Republicans are having a hard time finding a good web developer, after their last developer, Mike Connell, was given his 'severance package' last December.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Connell
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chthonic
October 13, 2009 4:04 PM in reply to Dave Bowman
Ah; right. And they are still using "Smart Tech":
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gop.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
gop.com. 276 IN A 64.203.109.110
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gop.com. 259176 IN NS ns2.cha.smartechcorp.net.
gop.com. 259176 IN NS ns3.atl.smartechcorp.net.
gop.com. 259176 IN NS ns1.cha.smartechcorp.net.
gop.com. 259176 IN NS ns4.atl.smartechcorp.net.
Thankfully, the RNC appears to be rewarding its loyal followers. That's a good, good, thing.
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chthonic
October 13, 2009 3:57 PM
Didn't this sort of thing happen once before for these guys?
And can anyone tell if it's a design issue, a provider issue, or a comprehensive cockup?
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tinmanic
October 13, 2009 4:10 PM
Of course, if not for the federal government, there would be no Internet, so maybe the fail is supposed to be some arty statement about government programs.
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JoanF
October 13, 2009 7:41 PM
Right, MS, "It's not even really a website." It's a little tiny tube at the end of a lot of other tubes.
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truthspeaker
October 13, 2009 8:21 PM
Why are you all dumping on the repugs. Give them a break eh! They are trying really, really, really hard eh!. When you accuse them of being idiots, you are really just giving them a chance to say NO.
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Captain Dan
October 13, 2009 8:42 PM
The DONATE button works well! What else do they need?
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