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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."

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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 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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  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. "Fortunately" by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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.

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    1. Re:"Fortunately" by artor3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's fortunate because it's humorous. It's like that time that Biden asked the guy in the wheelchair to stand up and greet the crowd. Momentarily funny, ultimately meaningless.

      It's not like anyone's feelings are getting hurt here. The IT guy who posted it goofed, but no one knows or cares who he is. The posting doesn't reflect on Romney at all, and even if it did, so what? His political career is over regardless, and all he's got left is his piles of money, good health, and loving family. Do you really think he cares if people poke fun at one of staffer's slip-ups?

  9. Re:LOL by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the unlikely event that a large batch of Obama votes turn up in Virginia, Ohio & Florida as fraudulent and the electoral college swings to him... the presidency is his, concession or not.

    That would be the largest legal battle the country has ever seen. Given that Romney's campaign shut down so quickly that staffers found their credit cards had been canceled when they tried to pay for cabs on the way home from campaign headquarters, I kind of doubt he has the machinery in place for that kind of fight.

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

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