GOP Launches Satirical Web Magazine Of A Democratic Future: "America Weakly"

All Headline News ^ | Sept. 7, 2006 | Matthew Borghese

[FairOpinion]

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has launched, "America Weakly," a comical look at the future if the Democratic Party won control of Congress.

With articles like "Democrats: In Charge and Charged Up," and "Just Say 'No': Dems End Security Measures," Republican say a Democratic Congress would impeach the President, and withdraw from Iraq.

[FairOpinion]

LINK:

AMERICA WEAKLY

Recommend bookmarking it and visiting it. THAT is what will happen if the Dems will take over.

[MrEdd]

GOP Launches Satirical Web Magazine Of A Democratic Future: "America Weakly"

Yes, but what are conservative political organizations doing? /Senate.

[Candor7]

Yes, but what are conservative political organizations doing? /Senate.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I hope they are quietly putting all Rinos on the skids, especially Spector, and McCain.

[claptrap]

It already is "America Weakly", murderers, drug dealers,
and human garbage pouring over the border with Mexico.
The terrorists get better treatment than regular American citizens at club Gitmo. The world continues to poke and prod the slumbering giant America, we havent flattened
anyone. We should be testing ICBMS on Iran and Sryia and telling the Chinese if they object they are next.

[dfwgator]

Yeah next thing you know under the Democrats they'll let Khatami and Ahmadenejad enter the country....no wait....nevermind.

[Libertina]

ROTFLOL GREAT! BTTT Nice to see creative use of media.

[quantim]

Perhaps if the RNC showed a little political fortitude in promoting tougher conservative candidates they wouldn't have to reduce themselves to idiocy by promoting a gimmicky web site.

It's not time for cute satire for those charged with the responsibility of getting people elected, it's time to whack kneecaps, politically speaking. This was not necessary in 1994. Leave the satire to the blogosphere where it belongs.

Yet another good reason why the RNC has seen the last dime from me.  By putting nonsense like this up, they have reduced themselves to the common sewer as we know as the opposition, totally lacking any substance. (Unless it's a satire of a satire and the joke is on me, I'm on a 14.4 Kbps dial-up for the weekend).

[FairOpinion]

This maybe satirical, but the predictions of what the Dems would do are much closer to the truth, than one would like it.

The choice is allowing the Dems to take over Congress of make sure that the Republicans keep it.

I guess, judging from your post, you want to have the Dems take over.


You might want to read:


Message to Death Wish Republicans: You Can't Win By Losing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698407/posts

[Coop]

Real nice. Folks gripe if the Pubbies don't "play hard ball," and they gripe if they do.

I like the website, and applaud them for doing it!

[quantim]

judging from your post, you want to have the Dems take over.

That's a rather imaginative gleaning.

'Republicans,' or 'conservatives' whichever you prefer are going to win on ideas, pragmatism, morality, not by wasting away well-intentioned donor money trying to be cute and funny on the web and appealing to DU gamers and other discards.

This moronic notion might get a few young wannabe pothead conservatives out to vote, but how many would actually ever hit this DNS, let alone influence a decision?

Meanwhile, there are some really decent candidates that aren't getting the support they should, when they should, and where they should.

It would behoove all to realize that the RNC is a RINO birthplace.

Just like the U.N. in many ways - it is the problem and not the solution.

[quantim]

I have never griped when republicans (or conservatives) have played hardball, see tag.

Satire is not hardball, it's entertainment and laziness.

I have no problem with this cited domain, but the fact that they did this in the first place is a total misdirection and suggests the RNC has lost sight of the bottom line.

Attacking your attackers under the guise of humor only suggests there is no argument in the first place, a total capitulation.

 

[California Patriot]

Admittedly, it's not what we really need. But it may be a sign of creative thinking, and a willingness on someone's part to get aggressive. As usual, the GOP leadership overrates taxes as an election issue.

We shall see.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Satirical? Sounds pretty darn accurate to me.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Spot on.

So, in addition to supporting a useless twat like Chafee, they are also trying to reinvent Mad Magazine.

Boy, am I encouraged.

[Straight Vermonter]

The left has television shows like the "Daily Show" and the "Colbert Report" doing pretty much this same kind of satire nightly.

If we want to be sure to reach the under 30 voters this sort of stuff is critical. Many of them actually say they get the majority of their news from Jon Stewart and Jay Leno.

You are right to say "Leave the satire to the blogosphere" but perhaps this will produce some copycats and then it will no longer be needed.

[Quix]

Great idea.

[PhiKapMom]

I posted it earlier this week and thought it was great!

[quantim]

Update:  Fat Deb.

Some candidates turn competitors into Internet games

WASHINGTON -- The tech-savvy marketing that is part of Michigan's statewide campaigns this election season makes traditional forms of communication look like technological dinosaurs. E-mail blasts (sending thousands of e-mails out in one shot), text messaging over cellular phones to raise money and establishing a Web page on social networking sites such as MySpace.com are all being used to win converts and recruit volunteers.

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``If you're not communicating effectively in the way voters want to be communicated with, then you're going to lose,'' said David All, communications director for the Bouchard campaign. ``That's why you have to have a multi-medium strategy.''

That's also one of the reasons why U.S. Senate candidate Mike Bouchard's Web site now features an Arcade section with two video games that ridicule Stabenow's voting record. One of the games produced by the National Republican Senatorial Committee imitates a carnival ``whack-a-mole'' game.

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As much as I would like to my home state contribute to the nation as in decades gone by, playing a 'whack-a-mole' online is not how leaders get elected.

Interesting that they also have a web mail form handler that suggests one can register to vote online.  More likely it generates a paper 'form' mailed to the SOS.