Huffington Post: "Meghan McCain Explains How Her Blog Could Have Saved The GOP"

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Meghan McCain Explains How Her Blog Could Have Saved The GOP



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/20/meghan-mccain-explains-ho_n_168634.html

GAH. Am I actually reading Meghan McCain's piece in the Daily Beast, about how her blog was the unused secret weapon in the 2008 Campaign Battle on the Internet? Yes, apparently:

When I first suggested launching a blog chronicling my experience on my father's campaign for president, I was met with confusion and resistance. A few people even asked me what's a blog. Throughout the campaign, I did everything possible to showcase the fun and interesting parts of the campaign. I posted pictures. I wrote posts. I even included a playlist of my favorite songs. But often, I got the sense that people on the campaign thought I was wasting my time.

Yes, Meghan tried. Lord how she tried to INVIGORATE the GOP message online, with her Flickr account, and her daughterly neediness. But you can imagine the confusion and resistance she was met with from people who just sort of thought that affecting a significant shift in the electorate wasn't going to come about by enthusing about INTERNET and IPOD and NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND MP3s!

"The Republican party isn't exactly Internet savvy," McCain says, "That's no secret. This has been a source of personal frustration for me for a very long time." And while I suspect that by "very long time" she means "the past couple of hours," she's otherwise right. The McCain campaign had the dumb Barackbook parody, a fitful approach to social networks, and an official campaign blog written by Michael Goldfarb (I wonder how Meghan felt about that, by the way). And now, Michael Steele's going to have some "off-the-hook" hip-hop Twitters with only the dopest, most "urban" hashtags, or something. None of those things are, were, or will be the campaign category-killers the GOP needs. But all were considerably more "internet savvy" than McCain Blogette.

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1. She hit the nail on the head though

most republicans are not internet savvy....Thank God!!! It's enough that they flood the air-waves with their filth. Most of them are Old rich stuffed shirts who dont have time for technology.