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Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site

Posted by samzenpus on from the post-jumping-the-gun dept.

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."

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  1. Someone didn't get the memo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That site wasn't supposed to launch until Utah secedes.

    1. Re:Someone didn't get the memo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That site wasn't supposed to launch until Utah secedes.

      Somehow, I don't think we'll be going to war over that one.

    2. Re:Someone didn't get the memo by Reverand+Dave · · Score: 3, Funny

      He's too liberal for Utah.

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    3. Re:Someone didn't get the memo by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 5, Funny

      Syria is Utah's path to the sea!

  2. Icing on the fail cake by sandytaru · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully the Republicans can find a better candidate than a used car salesman next time. And hire a better IT staff.

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    1. Re:Icing on the fail cake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Obozo? Really? You're some fucking libtard commie hippy trying to hide the truth of your liberal agenda.

      It turns out that his REAL name was recently discovered on a North Korean birth certificate that was written in Arabic with ink made from the ashes of holocaust victims and the constitution. It turns out to be Osama Mohammed Chinese-Invasion Terrorist Muslim Nigger bin Laden Mexican Hitler Rapes-Kids Atheist Death-To-America.

      If you didn't hate America so much, God would have told you that already.

  3. Smaller, Simpler, Smarter by joh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Choose any two.

    1. Re:Smaller, Simpler, Smarter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I chose mine. Obama is smarter. Biden is simpler.

    2. Re:Smaller, Simpler, Smarter by AwesomeMcgee · · Score: 4, Funny

      In the votes! Oh!

  4. Re:LOL by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should hold on to the site, you never know what the final count will be once Florida finishes.

    Yeah. Florida might find another eighty electoral votes somewhere.

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  5. Not a mistake, this was expected. by aurashift · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

  6. Haha by mozumder · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's because we liberals can do whatever we want and you conservatives can't!

    ha ha! sucks to be you!

  7. Re:LOL by blade8086 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh Hi Boss!

    Since I don't give a crap about your campaign, or politics, and this is the only REAL website I've ever done,
    and this site is all I did during your campaign, I thought I'd publish it live for a few hours assuming some news outlets
    would pick it up, so that I could then reference it for future work, and have important media clippings to reference
    as well. Hope you don't mind - and if I do, oh well, what are you going to do, fire me?

    Is probably what I'd say.

  8. Re:Can we forget about him? by Raenex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shouldn't Ted Nugent be dead or in prison by now?

  9. Re:"Fortunately" by nine-times · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Fortunately" a blogger captured this? Why exactly is this a fortunate thing?

    Because it's just this kind of gaffe that could cost Romney the election!