Ah, those silly Republicans who don't get technology

[giza]

First, I'll quote the post from ontd_political:

Well known "conservative," columnist, and hard-core bigot Maggie Gallagher runs an organization known as "NOM." Contrary to the name, "NOM" is not for kittehs eating cheezburgers but in fact stands for "National Organization for Marriage." Their campaign uses many of the traditional stupid arguments to "fight" gay marriage. With the victories for gay marriage in Iowa and Vermont in recent weeks the NOM people decided they needed to "step it up" a notch and launch a NEW branded campaign to "save" marriage.

However, in a stunning show of ignorance the NOM folks decided to name their campaign "Two Million For Marriage" and in their own branding call it "2M4M." Yes, that's right, they named their anti-gay initiative with the acronym for "2 men for male," a personal ad code for a gay couple seeking a third for threesomes. This has invited a bunch of scorn in the media, alongside what's being directed at other conservatives for calling their "anti taxes" groups "teabaggers," again missing out on the sexual context.

In a show of complete Internet ignorance, however, NOM failed to secure the domain for their campaign, 2m4m.org. It was, instead, registered and used for a site called "Two Men For Marriage," which was built-out over the weekend and is featuring content that combats the fear, uncertainty and doubt that NOM is spreading.

I joked elsewhere that the Republican party is quickly turning into the "Grand Old White Guys Party", and an amazing lack of technology clue and slang clue like this certainly doesn't help the perception of that. Come on guys, is it really that hard to type "teabaggers" into Google?

(Incidentally, the Urban Dictionary term for "teabaggers" has already been updated to reflect recent SNAFUs.)

I'd sure like to see a distribution of age and gender in the Republican Party, including the mean and standard deviation on the age data.

Something I still don't understand is that with all of the problems facing our country, especially right now, with the economic recession/depression we have going on, why are these people fixated over denying equal rights to a small group of people? Don't they have better things to be doing, like, giving to charity, or volunteering in soup kitchens? You know, typical Christian values.

Comments

[heraldotbadger.livejournal.com]

Most countries that have elected officials have a conservative and liberal party. Very likely, I think, we will do what America has done many times in the past: The current conservative party disintegrates and the liberal party splits forming a new one.

[heraldotbadger.livejournal.com]

well America used to have different parties than it does now. The republican party used to be the progressive one. But eventually campaigning for "3/5 votes for blacks!" became the conservative thing to do, not the liberal thing.

Once a party goes conservative, it is dying. The new liberal party will overtake it and eventually itself become conservative, only to be replaced by another new liberal party.

At least ... that's what I recall from US history back in high school.

[heraldotbadger.livejournal.com]

yea, that is true. and it's true that most of the people in conservative parties are old and most of the people in progressive ones are young.

so yea, it's a good analogy.

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

What do you call a Conservative who hasn't been robbed at gunpoint yet? A Liberal.

[heraldotbadger.livejournal.com]

hassa reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States#Historical_political_parties