Sadly, the functional design of the new GOP.com website hasn't changed at all. It still functions in the same manner as the old one, with sheer party propaganda always going one way, from on high, down to the grassroots. What is missing is the functional ability to provide a plug and play generic package of programs that any Republican candidate can use, the 'how to organize a precinct' with a set of guidelines and interactive and data based software, some useful widgets to allow contact between individual grassroot party members and their own Congressional representatives, much like what can be found at The People Decide , and the function to give all party members their voice, allow all to speak and all to be accurately heard, not just by the party leadership, but by all party members.
What this tells me is the corporate wing of the party has prevailed in dictating its design for the new GOP website over the empowerment of the party's grassroot wing. It tells me they now think the political momentum has shifted so much in their favor, they no longer need to empower the party's grassroot membership in order to regain political power. It tells me they now believe they can usurp the Tea Party movement when the time comes without the need to engage it politically. And lastly, it tells me Obama's political failures are not going to bring about any significant changes in the political agenda of the Republican Party once it regains political power. The Republican Party will remain firmly in the grips of its corporate wing's political agenda of higher taxes, higher government spending and less personal liberty for all.
How sad. How very, very sad.
ex animo
davidfarrar