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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."

9 of 185 comments (clear)

  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.

  4. 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)

  5. 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!

  6. 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.

  7. "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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