Comments on: RNC Fail: This is getting freakin’ ridiculous

By: Jay C.

Jay C. — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:08:24 +0000

“No limitations on design; the RNC will be in on the entire process and will ensure everything is to our exact specifications.”

I’ve been a freelance web designer for the better part of six years. You know what that sentence says? “If we need something from you that you didn’t include in the cost, well, f*** it, it’s included anyway.”

So. You submit a bid that meets the requirements, spec out a cost of X dollars, and then all of a sudden they ask you develop an application from scratch? Repeat after me: “Well, f*** it, it’s included anyway.”

This is NOT how you get a good designer and a good developer to team up and bring together a revived GOP.com site. Given his functional requirements if anyone bids less than 40 Gs on this… I don’t care what the job market is like in web design and development these days. This is a project that requires you to perform 6 months’ worth of man-hours in a 45-day period.

By: LJ "Beaglescout" Miller

LJ "Beaglescout" Miller — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:41:40 +0000

to put together online petitions, have a site stakeholder okay them, and fax them once complete to everyone in Congress.

While you’re at it, how about regular polls that can be turned into news for the dead tree media?

By: farstar99

farstar99 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:10:43 +0000

Michael Steele’s most-reported suggestion so far is to say the RNC needs to be more Hip-Hop.

Anybody under 30 can tell you Hip-Hop’s been dead for over five years.

I bet he wears Bermuda shorts and sock garters.

By: azaeroprof

azaeroprof — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:56:49 +0000

I’ve got an extra house I’m trying to get rid of and a kid starting college in the fall, so I may not make it asap! But your story encourages me to bump this up on the priority list for sure! Thanks.

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:46:51 +0000

Yes the project is clear: to redesign the GOP website. But the requirements specified are blurred and in disorder.

On the document itself, my specific comments are as follows:

1. Too lengthy objectives.

2. The Tasks are not fully defined.

3. The Deliverables are not clearly stated.

4. The Qualifications for the tenders are not specified.

5. The Technical procedure for selection is not fully specified, including the criteria for the ranking and selection of the proposal.

Item 4 is important that the website should be built by “people with conservatism in their heart”. This is not just an ordinary RFP.

In summary, the paper is more of a concept paper…. NOT RFP.

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:16:00 +0000

ACTION

Conference Call: Sunday, 3/8/2009 for interested developers at 8PM Eastern and 5PM Pacific at 641-715-3630 Conference Code 922519#. We’ll arrange another conference call sooner if warranted by activity posted here. Be on the call if you are a developer who can make a contribution in developing the Authoritative Action Center for conservative activists.

By: johnpriestleyjr

johnpriestleyjr — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:55:11 +0000

Wasn’t that you donating to the Palin Gubenatorial Campaign? Were you thinking it was another pay to play administration and that you would have an “in.?” I just don’t understand, or am I correct that you hoped for an appointment since you donated?

This makes no sense. You donate to get her sent to Juneau and now say this.

Whichever way the wind blows , I guess.

By: johnpriestleyjr

johnpriestleyjr — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:55:11 +0000

This makes no sense. You donate to get her sent to Juneau and now say this.

Whichever way the wind blows , I guess.

By: johnpriestleyjr

johnpriestleyjr — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:46:00 +0000

Was donatinf to the Palin Gubenatorial race some sort of hope she would be running another a pay to play administration?

Why did you put money on her getting to Juneau, anyway?

By: johnpriestleyjr

johnpriestleyjr — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:46:00 +0000

Was donatinf to the Palin Gubenatorial race some sort of hope she would be running another a pay to play administration?

Why did you put money on her getting to Juneau, anyway?

By: civil_truth

civil_truth — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:48:19 +0000

if so, then this needs to be RedState supported project with front page space and a kick-off announcement.

Indeed, we may well need a RNC 2.0 to supercede the existing dysfunctional structure.

By: ColdWarrior

ColdWarrior — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:54:59 +0000

I’m envious of Achance’s getting to see all that awesome beauty every day. I’ve been blessed to visit Alaska four times. Spent the Bi-centennial looking out the window of a jet while flying from Anchorage to Fairbanks and looking down at Mt. McKinley. Most recent memorable experience was rising to the tops of the peaks above Juneau in a helicopter and seeing snow covered peaks as far as the eye could see. Jaw-droppingly beautiful. And later, in Glacier Bay, watching a seal give birth to a pup on a chunk of ice while a Forest Service guy gave running commentary to the folks at the rails on the cruise ship, and then thirty seconds or so later, to the absolute horror of most in the crowd, a bald eagle swoops in and flys off with the newborn pup in its claws, with the Forest Service guy, without missing a beat, saying something like, “Well, ladies and gentlemen, you’ve just witnessed what nature is all about . . . .”
AZ is beautiful — I love it every time I drive through the Salt River Canyon on the way up to Sunrise to ski, for example, or just driving out into the desert outside of Phoenix, in any direction, but Alaska, I think, is on another plane altogether in terms of its vastness, diversity and raw beauty. If you can, book your travel now. I hope to go again soon.

By: 1stRichard

1stRichard — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:30:41 +0000

Ok, I was about to comment on that but now I see I don’t have to…

7. A defined LOCAL geographic area (dynamically and demographically examined for potential effectiveness) where I can walk a district and knock on doors RIGHT NOW

Heck, I from the keister end Taxachusetts the Marxist welfare state, it gets really hostile out here, got a plan for some backup?

By: Achance

Achance — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:26:25 +0000

stuff. Reasonable people could disagree about some of that Governor stuff, but he’s been paying attention.

The mountains right around here are only 3 - 5K. A few miles north and west the Chilkats are 10K or so. The Fairweather Range on the Gulf Coast between here and Anchorage are 15K +. Mt. Logan, just over the border in the Yukon is 19K and change, only a couple hundred feet lower than Mt. McKinley. On a rare clear day or if the cloud deck is low so you can see the bulk of them, the Fairweather Range is simply awe-inspiring. I’ve flown from JNU to ANC only God knows how many times and even still, I can’t turn away from the window if I’m on the shoreside. It is truly the Hall of the Mountain King; to my mind even moreso than the Central Alaska Range with McKinley and Foraker. There ain’t nothing like it in the World!

By: Ron Robinson

Ron Robinson — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:07:07 +0000

You are right on Erick! GOP.com is lame, the GOP Tech Summit was lame and I decided to do something about it:

http://gopguerrillas.ning.com

Yes, we are going to do a hijack and do the job the GOP won’t do.

Yes, we are going to get a bunch of open source type programmers together and put up what will become the authoritative Action Center. FOr GOP activists.

So if you are a coder, an artist, designer, database guru, or even just a blog moderator type, we are going to need you. Please go to

http://gopguerrillas.ning.com

…and get involved. We will provide the activism tools not even discussed in the GOP RFP like:

1. If I register and desire a call, then I get a phone call within a day from a LOCAL GOP worker telling me how I could help
2. I can BE the GOP worker calling #1 above from my area
3. Phone list of LOCAL voters I can call for party outreach RIGHT NOW
4. A calendar of events within 100 miles I can attend RIGHT NOW
5. Ability to add a new event to the #2 (above) calendar RIGHT NOW
6. A phone/email list of LOCAL party workers who have said they want to be contacted to help with events RIGHT NOW
7. A defined LOCAL geographic area (dynamically and demographically examined for potential effectiveness) where I can walk a district and knock on doors RIGHT NOW

These are the activism tools we need. Let’s make them.

If we build it they will come.

By: aardpig

aardpig — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:56:05 +0000

…but most respondents start preparing a proposal 10 days before the deadline.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:10:18 +0000

and say to dems, YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS.

Rush has been saying this for years. We must stop being nice.

By: azaeroprof

azaeroprof — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:58:56 +0000

I want her in DC, you want her out of Juneau, sounds like a match to me!
She seems to have gone into her quiet phase. Don’t know if she’s writing, reading, or just governing. She, like the other GOP hopefuls, is probably laying low to see where Obama’s popularity is in a couple years to see if ‘12 or ‘16 is the better environment.

Alaska is my dream vacation. I like my mountain view here in AZ, but the mountains are only 6000-8000 feet, rarely (though sometimes) snow-covered, and there are no glaciers!

By: JustLeaveMeAlone

JustLeaveMeAlone — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:53:05 +0000

I don’t see the Republican Party ~being~ conservative. It seems to be run by squishies, RINOs, and sellouts. There’s a huge lack of vision and leadership. And the incompetence is breathtaking.

Reminds me of the truth of my favorite quote from PJ O’Rourke:

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”

By: JustLeaveMeAlone

JustLeaveMeAlone — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:49:55 +0000