Click on a former candidate's Web site. You never know what you'll find, from Pokemon to hooking up.

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/28/4 | Peter Hartlaub

[SmithL]

George W. Bush and John Kerry's Web sites may be among the most traveled destinations in cyberspace now, but in a few months, they could be just another place to shop for sex toys, download movies and get a law degree online.

That's the fate of conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan's 2000 presidential campaign Web site, www.gopatgo2000.org, which has been taken over by a company that, among other things, helps its customers hook up with "swingers looking for sex in your area."

When politicians and Internet domain names meet, strange things happen, particularly after the campaigns are over. Click on Elizabeth Dole's old site, and you go straight to an auction of Pokemon video games on eBay. A Libertarian currently owns the original 1996 Clinton and Dole campaign Web sites, and uses them to support 2004 Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik, while also hawking Clinton and Dole's latest books.

When asked for an explanation, a top domain-name registrar pointed out that Web site addresses are always rented and never owned, and that former owners can't dictate who picks up their discarded sites.

[SmithL]

Left-overs, again?

[avg_freeper]

That's the fate of conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan's 2000 presidential campaign Web site, www.gopatgo2000.org, which has been taken over by a company that, among other things, helps its customers hook up with "swingers looking for sex in your area."

I think it's just despicable that Pat's old site has been hijacked by these people. Catering to exhibitionists that have no commitment, whoring their selves around to whoever shows them the most interest.

Why that's just wrong.