Conservatives getting excited about being on Twitter simply for the sake of being on Twitter reminds me of Democrats and related groups adding “blog” to everything in 2002-5 and thinking that made up for being weenies. It doesn’t. As long as the Republican party is still debating whether a racially insensitive song is really that bad, listens to marching orders from Rush Limbaugh, and consistently defends the failed presidency of George W. Bush, they will stay in the wilderness.
Even if they Twitter the eff out of it.
Hey, didn’t the Democrats’ obsession with the word blog land you a job in 2004?
So that’s where all the annoying new followers keep coming from.
Shorter GOP: skinny shiny s**tpipe FTW! (Fail.)
Hey, didn’t the Democrats’ obsession with the word blog land you a job in 2004?
Well, I didn’t say it was all misguided.
But will it have as much impact as Googlebombing?
They’ll never get past the self-comforting self-reinforcing self-hole-digging crap-trap until they eliminate their core “Government is always bad but our leaders are always badder” philosophy. Well, and all the crazy talk too I quess.
Bah. Let them have Twitter. All the cool liberals hang out in FriendFeed.
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