McClatchy: GOP opens another front in the campaign to win the Web

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/43866.html

By Barbara Barrett | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — National Republican leaders will unveil a Web site Friday that they hope will encourage grassroots participation in the shaping of the party's 2008 platform.

Republican leaders say they believe the site, www.gopplatform2008.com, will create an online community allowing anyone with access to a computer to offer ideas, to comment on others' ideas, and even to submit videos explaining their views.

"I feel certain we'll get some great ideas," said U.S. Sen Richard Burr, R-N.C., co-chairman of the Republican platform committee. "Will that be the majority? I have no way of gauging."

What the site certainly will generate for the Republican National Committee is a ready-to-go database of contact names for future fund-raising. Users will be required to register in order to comment.

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Well, this should be amusing, unintentionally amusing.

Oh, speaking of amusing -- the "today's featured cartoon" on that page right now is wonderful. It's a cartoon about the G8 summit.

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1. Catchy URL.

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2. LOL

I've always wanted to read paragraphs and paragraphs of a party's platform, especially when most people don't adhere to them in any case.

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3. Sounds as if it might be a good substitute for Ambien.

FUX will probably run the URL along the bottom of the screen between now and November.