Republicans steal Barack Obama's internet campaigning tricks

[babsbunny]

Republicans steal Barack Obama's internet campaigning tricks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/republicans-internet-barack-obama

Ed Pilkington in New York

Since their election disaster, the right has used new media to gather strength, culminating in last weekend's huge protest

Erik Telford remembers all too vividly the dark cloud hanging over him on 5 November 2008, the day after Barack Obama was elected president. For the internet strategist at the rightwing campaign group Americans for Prosperity, election night was a double disaster. Not only had Obama won the votes, he had outwitted his Republican opponents in his use of new media tricks such as email recruiting and social networking.

"The left was far ahead of us. The efforts that Obama put into internet campaigning and what he accomplished were extraordinary," Telford says.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. political theft is the highest form of admiration.

[Turbineguy]

2. Using the internet to meet

more crazy people and get them to vote.

Very clever.

[KansDem]

3. Photo from link--

I look at these folks and think, "I have absolutely nothing in common with them." In fact, I probably have more in common with a citizen of Venezuela, Cuba, or Iran.

[graywarrior]

5. WTF does "are you wee-weed up? no! I'm tee-teed off!" mean?

[madinmaryland]

9. Pretty bizarre isn't it!

I don't know what wee-weed up is, but she does appear to have tee-tee's!

:evilgrin:

[graywarrior]

11. Same planet, differnet worlds.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "Erik Telford remembers all too vividly the dark cloud hanging over him

on 5 November 2008".

Just as tens of millions remembered the total eclipse of the sun that brought about a worldwide disaster on December 12, 2000, when the SCOTUS installed chimpy as the POTUS... and it had nothing to do with the "new media" or a lack thereof.

[opihimoimoi]

6. TYP SOB GOP....Lie Cheat Steal

[DCKit]

7. OK, so they've figured out email.

Now let's teach them to research what they're being told by Rush, Beck, etc.... There is far more information than disinformation on the tubes.

The Wingers let this genie out of the bottle, now they'll have to distribute their own version of "Net Nanny" to block all those evil librul sites or face further marginalization. Can't have the minions growing their minds if you want them to do as they are told without question.

[Posteritatis]

8. Pity they didn't steal his more important tricks

You know, basic civility, basic awareness of the world, campaigning for something other than campaigning against the other guy, using something other than fear as your primary motivators...

[BooBluePotion]

10. Im somewhat Surprised that

This is coming from an insignificant barbaric antiquated assbackwards fundamentalist sector that spent the latter part of 2008 dissing the fuck out of Community Organizing. Do these wingers even understand what conservatism does to your mind? They pride themselves on the ability to stay underdeveloped. How fucked up is that? Very fucked up.