Posted on 01/22/2007 12:41:15 PM PST by areafiftyone
As Dan Balz and I wrote in today's Post, presidential candidates on both sides are focused heavily on bolstering their Internet presence through a variety of new tools, including video, podcasts and even online video chats.
To brainstorm and implement these new innovations, the campaigns are chasing after a small group of people in their 20s and early 30s versed in the language of the new media.
One of the real "gets" on the GOP side of that world is Patrick Ruffini, who served as the Web master of President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign and then served in a similar role at the Republican National Committee. Ruffini gained recognition in national Republican circles for his blog, which was one of the first serious attempts on the Republican side at building an online community.
Ruffini has signed on with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign as an e-campaign adviser. The hiring is only the latest sign that Giuliani is serious about a run for national office in 2008.
In building a national staff, Giuliani has recruited a number of former Bush operatives to his cause -- the latest being Brent Seaborn, who will be the director of strategy for the campaign. Seaborn was intimately involved in the microtargeting efforts credited with growing the number of Republican votes for Bush in 2004. Seaborn was a co-founder of TargetPoint Consulting, which specialized in microtargeting and data mining.
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A vote for Duncan Hunter or any other 3rd party candidate is a vote for Obama Hussein.
Gosh, that's a shame.
Pat Robertson thinks Rudy would make a good president.
Asked if Giuliani would be an acceptable 2008 presidential candidate to Christian conservatives, Robertson told ABC's "This Week:" "He did a super job running the city of New York and I think he'd make a good president."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/1/102522.shtml
GASP!!!!!! Shall I start singing "It's Not Easy Being Green???"
I guess they will bolt to the Green Party.
Like you said, you will be voting third party.
Bad enough we lost the House and the Senate. Do you really want Hillary as Commander in Chief?
So. I do not vote for liberals like Rino Rudy.
I truly laugh at posters who speak for untold numbers of others.
I don't know what to think about those articles and Evangelicals going green and believing the global warming scam.
No, but then again I do not see enough differnece between Rino Rudy or Hitlery to care. Both are flaming left wing socialists.
Please don't let this poster make this thread about his or her ONE vote. S/he already distracted me yesterday.
Good news. Then we can jettison these crybabies and they can go play marbles in the political desert.
Sometimes one is able to vote for one's ideals. Sometimes one votes to keep evil out of power. If you refuse to do the latter, then you're completely useless, a whingeing little brat on the sidelines in the great struggle of 2008.
Ivan
Why are you supporting this liberal? There are conservative runnig.
I try not too. But this is good news. Patrick Ruffini is very well known. Rudy picked a good one.
Compared to Rino Rudy, Hitlery does not scare me that much. I consider him that bad.
;-) Just having a bit of fun!
Ruffini is a big get for Rudy. I keep hearing that "I won't vote for a RINO like Rudy", but somebody must like him; almost every poll I have seen puts him at the top of the pack. Perhaps it is just name I.D. or an anti-McCain reflex, but people better start taking Rudy seriously he might be the guy in 08.
Fine. Then you're either ignorant or stupid. Either way, third parties are welcome to your vote.
Ivan
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