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Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site
stevegee58 writes "The Mitt Romney presidential campaign accidentally launched a transition website the day after the election. Sporting a 'President Elect' seal and a catchy new tagline ('Smaller, Simpler, Smarter') , the site was up briefly before the gaffe was discovered and the site taken down. Fortunately an alert blogger, Taegan Goddard, found the errant site and published some screen shots."
That site wasn't supposed to launch until Utah secedes.
He's channeling his inner Rick Perry.
Anybody want my mod points?
Hopefully the Republicans can find a better candidate than a used car salesman next time. And hire a better IT staff.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
How do you explain this to your boss?
They should hold on to the site, you never know what the final count will be once Florida finishes.
Late night comics, I mean. The rest of us, not so much.
Choose any two.
Both are appropriate.
It's over, Johnny. It's over...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Romney is famous for flip-flopping. Even if someone told him he lost, he thinks he won. And he did. That's the beauty of not taking a stance and not taking NO for an answer. God bless you Romney. God bless us all. (Except the gays)
that's because we liberals can do whatever we want and you conservatives can't!
ha ha! sucks to be you!
If I were an American I'd be shouting "The government can't make jobs!"
Well, any government that isn't communist and/or a dictatorship, that is.
"Fortunately" a blogger captured this? Why exactly is this a fortunate thing? It's not like the site shows Romney doing something wrong, or trying to cover up something. Is there something particularly great about the site design that can benefit us in some way? Perhaps it contains some great scripts that we are now fortunate to have access to?
Someone made a mistake, and you say it is a "fortunate" that they can now be made fun of because of it. Politics aside, let's simply not act like assholes please. Also, be thankful that your mistakes don't turn into Slashdot stories.
Better known as 318230.
No publicity is bad publicity. Maybe it's a "here's what you would have gotten" kind of thing, so that when the depression that's been masked by 4 years of Federal Reserve QE once again bursts to the surface, they can point to it. Nevermind that the depression is the result of decades of cumulative policy failure from both sides of the aisle. The party on the sidelines will make hay out of it.
Woo!
Elections have consequences.
After Romney carried Ohio.
I'm used to hearing growling after a long list of states.
Romney and Bain Capital do not have time to worry about a simple presidential loss. Obama won they have to swing into full outsourcing sales mode which will not be very, very easy. You see Romney and Bain did not loose, they won and won big.
Got Code?
I mean, heck, the Romney campaign is transitioning, right? The only problem is in the details, and Romney doesn't like to get into that sort of stuff until later.
Schadenfreudelicious.
I’ve always wondered why people post this sort of incoherent nonsense. It’s not even spam. Is it just GNAA trollers trying to collect more downmods than others? Or are they trying to game the system by posting junk for mods to spend their points on, thus missing real troll posts?
where are the screen caps? I want to see this.
To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy.
"...begging for mercy from the Union before Sherman or any other general set foot on their soil?"
???? Uh, small as they might be, the last land battles of the "War of Northern Aggression" were fought in Texas.
Previously, Galveston had been recaptured from Union forces in Jan 1, 1863 and remained confederate until June 18-19, 1865, "Juneteenth".
Then the final Union attempt to take Texas in September 1863, a Union invasion fleet with 5000 Federal troops was repulsed at the Battle of Sabine Pass.
PS. Before you even start, I live way north of New York...
They just got smaller smarter simpler votes.
Korma: Good
All Willard needs is to convert the votes of the dead the same way some in Utah are converting the religion of the dead.
But how does one get them to the polls?
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ldsagree.html
Slogan fails because it's hard to say - Smaller, Simpler, Smarter - Sm Si Sm - not easy to articulate it.
This wasn't an accident. This was a last shot to the current standing President of the United States of America.
Nobody is stupid enough to have this happen accidentally; even Bush was reported saying "Harsh, man, harsh..."
CAPTCHA = attests - see, even /. agrees with these statements.
There must be a lot of this kind of 'backup win/lose' sort of publication, someone should be collecting it all for an alternative history museum. It could be filled with never-launched websites, newspapers printed one way or the other, inventions that never happned because someone beat them to the punch a day earlier. The world is full of paths that never get taken but someone thought ahead and was prepared for the opposite.
Romney needs to go on an apology tour.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Mussolini
This is merely the start of Amercia. With Romney as president, Amercia will be even better than ever.
This sounds like an Onion-perpetrated prank to continue their "Romney not giving up just because he lost the election" schtick.
And the Obamatrons go: Bahhhhhhhh!
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Hell, even Truman made fun of the newspapers for incorrectly predicting his loss to Dewey: "Dewey Defeats Truman" said the headline, and there's a picture of a grinning Truman laughing at the headline! If the president-elect can laugh at a newspaper's premature prognostications, then certainly we can too.
Even if the only reason that the web-site became live was so that the site-designer could crow to his/her mom(s): "Hey Ma, look what I did! And they didn't even bother doing their part and win even though I did my part to make the website!"
That's interest to read about Eisenhower. Where is that particular document found? Wasn't he the "The Buck Stops Here" president? That' would make sense. It does say a lot about him that he's willing to own up to and take responsibility for his actions, whether the outcome is good or bad.
I don't have source for the Eisenhower doc. If you want to google it, feel free.
Harry Truman was the one with the "The Buck Stops Here" sign on his desk.