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When you’re one of two major political parties in the most powerful country on the planet, you are not permitted to publish a website in its beta stage. That is akin to reading the first draft of a speech at a fundraiser.

Get it working, then publish it. Anything short of that is counter productive.

Well,
I figured it couldn’t hurt to be responsive to it and let them know we are right outside with torches and pitchforks…
I feel like we send these guys in to clean house, and the next day they are smoking crack and running about with call girls.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEAL???
Yeah..sold out again.
I keep e-mailing my Congressmen, H-Young, SEN Begich and Darling Lisa Murkowski…probably twice a week. On everything.
McCain has to go, along with Snowe.If I wanted to be a Democrat, I would just have signed up.
Don’t cross the isle without a gun and a knife, it is supposed to be a scalp hunt.
Can you believe that McCain actually managed to blow it with Sarah behind him? Unreal. What a buffoon.
Heck, I could become President with her pitching for me, and I make EVERYONE mad.
Anyhow, the GOP page could be a useful tool, and I encourage everyone to sign up, but I don’t want anyone kissing up and being pleasant about it.
Go there, sign up, and raise heck.
We are sick of it.
Thanks again,
Alaska Mark

…is a welcome development, so the new website gets a thumbs-up from me, warts and all.

If it needs changes, let’s contribute some constructive ideas.

We can’t leave any stone unturned in trying to recapture the initiative. The party polling gains of late have, I’m afraid, been the result of unhappiness with the Dems, not an endorsement of Republicans. We need to change that.

Where was ANY mention of pro-life or pro-family issues. I’m all for a strong military and for intelligent energy usage, but isn’t there a place on this website to mention the dignity and sanctity of life?

Front page still sucks.
Nothing on it captures your attention.
I’ll give it some time. Things can change.

Here and here. We’ll know more later this week.

First, thanks to whoever posted my Mollohan story on Red State. Much appreciated.

As for the GOP website, I’m not too surprised. Any website I’ve launched has had issues the first day. So I’ll be forgiving.

But what I don’t like is the stupid digital Michael Steele that greets me. I can never forgive myself for supporting that self-serving clown. Plus you can hear the production guy talk to Steele right at the very end.

The GOPs first principles, but admit I didn’t look that hard. Didn’t feel I had to.

Maybe Snowe could tell me what they are, she seems like a very principled weather vane.

I have been a programmer for over 20 years, have been doing web design for over a dozen years and run a small web design business myself.

My take on the new site:

- They committed a Cardinal Sin right off the bat. You should never have to scroll down below the fold to get to content. Bad design there.

- The menu dropdowns are both not needed and are way too large. They should list horizontally, not vertically and should not take up so much space when hovered over.

- The color scheme is very blah overall. White, grey/blue and red is not a good combo. It should be a vibrant red, white and blue. Those colors are both the most pleasing to the eye as well as being the most flexible to work with.

- The sidebar is clunky, the margin padding too wide and the text for the dates compared to the actual content text do not mesh well.

- A better font and font size could have been used. This is most apparent in the posts and comments themselves.

Frankly, I could have been a better job on this with a couple of free weeks of notice. It looks like that they used a canned Wordpress template and only tweaked it a little bit.

I have not tried to join the site, (not that would I ever join the RNC, I told them to go to Hell awhile back as they will never get a dime from me as long as they are the frontmen for the McGOP), but seeing that several people are already having performance issues with it, that makes all of it’s shortcomings look all the worse.

Grade: D-

Guess he didn’t make the cut. But Jackie Robinson (who comes loaded with lots of anti-GOP quotes) did.

Some fact checking might be in order.

A helpful suggestion would be to include voices from the current multiple debates over conservatism in the pages. Frum, Douthat, Larison and Postrel just had a good conversation the other day with some good things to say.No need to agree or settle on one but to let the voices be heard.

It’s a good, modern looking site that fits in with the idea of re-making the Republican brand and cleaning out all of the statists masqurading as conservatives.

I like Michael Steele. I wish he could articulate his points more like someone like Charles Krauthammer, but he’s pretty good and has his moments. Democrats have had a death grip on the black and other minority votes, and he’s the right person to try and connect with them and learn they’ve been voting against their interests (you could even throw the LGBT in there, if they value economic and national security over homosexual marriage, of which our president is not a proponent, lest anyone forget).

We really need to hammer them on the truth about African-American issues and explain how Democrats have simply transferred their subservience from slave owners to the state. Remind them that it was the Republican Party that was founded by the abolitionists. Remind them that MLK was a Republican. Remind them that the pro-abortion politicians they vote for result in a slaughter of black babies at a disproportionately high rate. Remind them that there are black students just like Sasha and Malia who are denied the opportunity to go to their school because Democrats like Obama are beholden to teachers unions. Ask them how much good Democrats have done them in liberal strongholds like Chicago. I wonder how many black kids got mowed down in the Chicago streets while I wrote this. Ask them if they want this country’s finances to look like California’s.

The pervasive thing about the statist’s message is everything they want to “give” people, but people don’t care enough to examine all the strings attached - and those are things the statist certainly doesn’t want to reveal. We want to give them opportunity - they want to give them a check. We need to start exposing them for what they are - freedom robbing slavery merchants.

“I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.” - Frederick Douglass

as the “next face of the Republican party.”

Clicked upload, said my piece about a strong national defense and fiscal conservatism, and then clicked submit.

No e-mail. No confirmation. Subliminal messaging?

Why does the list of accomplishments of the Republican party end in 2004? The “Heroes” section is laughable with the overt attempt to show all our great minority heroes. The “Faces” of the GOP at the top left of page is also curious … why so few caucasian faces?( If you go to the drop down page of faces they can be found (LOL)) Some Madison avenue kid will soon add the obligatory kid in a wheel-chair. Couldn’t they find any lesbians etc etc?
I confess that I raced thru the site, maybe their is more meat there…I saw pablum. For instance, I think the “what we believe ” should be prominent not just a tab on a drop down.

I realize this is beta, but not impressed. If I directed any of my liberal friends to the site, it would be a waste of their time.

This isn’t worth a diary, but since this is an open thread…

Via Reuters:

Pakistani aircraft bombed Taliban fighters in their South Waziristan bastion on Wednesday as more soldiers and tanks moved in for an expected offensive against the militant hub.

Since Obama recently said that there is a rightful place for the Taliban and his goal is to basically have a draw with Al Qaida, shouldn’t the US be expressing outrage at this Pakistani assault?

As someone else pointed out, there is WAY too much wasted space at the new site. We’re used to dealing with a ton of stuff on a screen, be it almost any other website in existence or while watching ESPN, FNC, etc. It makes it look amateurish to me.

On to open thread territory, I’ve said this a bunch of times here before, but I can’t freaking believe that the GOP is never reminding people about Obama’s campaign lies about health care premiums, especially since the insurance industry report gave them a great opening to bring it up. I just sent the following to Cornyn’s office. The GOP is blowing it as usual.

Especially with the report that Obamacare will drive health insurance premiums through the roof - which, as the GOP Finance Committee members pointed out yesterday, the CBO could investigate if allowed to do so by Democrats - why isn’t the GOP reminding people of yet another broken Obama campaign promise? On multiple occasions (see examples from two debates below), he promised that the average family would see a $2,500/year reduction in insurance premiums under Obamacare. So even if premiums stayed the same, which they obviously won’t, that’s already a $2,500 increase for us working families over what he promised. WHY ISN’T THE GOP REMINDING PEOPLE OF THIS ALL THE TIME? Is there anything that would hit home with the average working American more than to be reminded that Obama is already taking an extra couple hundred dollars a month out of their pockets even before adding the increases from Obamacare?

From 2nd debate:
“So here’s what I would do. If you’ve got health care already, and probably the majority of you do, then you can keep your plan if you are satisfied with it. You can keep your choice of doctor. We’re going to work with your employer to lower the cost of your premiums by up to $2,500 a year.”
Video: between 49:30 and 50:00 here

Note that right after that he mentions that people will get the same kind of plan as he and McCain have, but of course the Democrats have voted down all amendments to put the Democrats in the same plan they are foisting on the rest of us.

From 3rd debate:
“So here’s what my plan does. If you have health insurance, then you don’t have to do anything. If you’ve got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.
The only thing we’re going to try to do is lower costs so that those cost savings are passed onto you. And we estimate we can cut the average family’s premium by about $2,500 per year.”
Video: between 55:30 and 56:00 here

Again right after that he makes it sound like the plan for the public will be equivalent to the plan for Congress.

and wandered around the site. Apparantly the old login I had on gop.com is gone, so I had to re-register. There is no link that I can find to the state GOP websites (one link says “states” but it links to some sub-social group which for my state has 8 members). That seems to me to be a big hole in their strategy. If they want more people involved, great, but they should be encouraging local level participation.

Donate button is nice and large though

On a related note, I finally found an email for a GOP committee chair in my county and contacted them (I’ve had phone numbers forever, but I’m lousy about picking up the phone and calling *anyone*). Hopefully this will be the start of my getting more involved….

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truly disgusting, I am about as sick as I can be. Sad commentary on the state of affaris in teh United States of Abortion.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1220095/American-abortion-addict-15-terminations-17-years-publishes-memoir.html

I think I am going to be sick.

How bout a nice yellow or purple…lol.

The site takes over a minute to open on my 3 meg symmetrical connection, the banner is a field of red, nothing to break it such as GRAPHICS except a few faint stars and a HUGE DONATE button. The space between the banner and actual content is huge, I have to scroll down to see content that should be visible in the tab. When I tried to get the jobs page, it was inoperable. It is still inoperative 24 hours later. Why would jobs be under housekeeping anyhow? Sounds like the GOP wants all workers to be maids, butlers or janitors. NOT professional.

The favico (the little icon that represents the webpage in the address bar) looks like a little monkey! When I try to register and click on the continue button on page 2 it does not advance, just kicks me back to the main page. The header on page 2 says that it has created the membership, but unlike any reasonably well written website it does not show me as logged in when I am kicked back to the main page instead of getting redirected to the 3rd page as should happen.

I use IE 8, and it does eventually render tho yesterday it was down off and on all day. It seems to me that whoever was paid to create this has not earned their money. It is unfinished, unprofessional and of limited use. Where is the DIGG or STUMBLEUPON recommendation button? Why so much unrelieved RED? Where is the US FLAG, the CONSTITUTION, the BILL OF RIGHTS?

I am truly unimpressed with this effort. Disgusted with it might be a bit more accurate a description. Has the GOP fallen so low that the national committee can’t even get a webpage to work? How much money was wasted on this half-finished debacle anyhow?

OBAMA’S PRINTING PRESS MADNESS

October 14.2009…
“President Obama is calling on Congress to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year. The White House put the cost at $13 billion.”

CRAWFISH NOTE: This is more democrat (aka secular socialist) fiscal insanity. America is already at least 9 trillion in debt. America is broke. We have 10% unemployment.
The socialist Party is pushing a HC Bill costing $800 billion plus. America is already at least 9 trillion in debt. America is broke. We have 10% unemployment.
The socialist Party has dozens of taxes in the works to reduce your paycheck and raise your cost of living. America is already at least 9 trillion in debt. America is broke. We have 10% unemployment.
The socialist Party will let all the Bush tax cuts expire after next year. America is already at least 9 trillion in debt. America is broke. We have 10% unemployment.
The secular socialist Party has had ALL the power for over 9 months and…and…and? America is already at least 9 trillion in debt. America is broke. We have 10% unemployment. Thanks a pant load. Not to worry, the minion media will change democrat diapers 24-7.

Unicorns and liberal rainbow dust everywhere.
Is it any wonder all early voting polls indicate the socialist Party is going down hard?
J. Carter Obama rules all!

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