skippy the bush kangaroo

Thursday, July 26, 2007

repubbblicans afraid of cats on pianos



as loathe as we are to link to hugh hewitt's blog, patrick ruffini is there floating a delicious piece of gossip these days. apparently the gop candidates are beginning to back out of the upcoming repubbb youtube debate in sept:

given the huge earned media hit the democrats got this week, the fact that even the highly partisan questioners acquitted themselves better than chris matthews did in the first debate, and the sponsorship of the powerful republican party of florida, i didn't think the gop candidates would make the political mistake of passing up it up.

i was apparently wrong. rudy giuliani is unlikely to participate, according to an official source.

and mitt romney wouldn't commit, dissing the "snowman question."

mitt romney didn't like some of the more frivolous trappings and told the new hampshire union leader that "i think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman."
and again, as loathe as we are to agree w/anything written on townhall.com, we do:

this is a big mistake. the democrats are afraid to answer questions from big bad fox news anchors, and the republicans are afraid to answer questions from regular people. which is worse?
point taken, pat. it's one thing to refuse to participate in a debate held by an organization you see as partisan, whether or not your perception is correct.

but to back out of a direct interface with the citizens of the united states? we'd call that cowardly. and it bothers patrick:

it's stuff like this that will set the gop back an election cycle or more on the internet. no matter the snazzy web features and youtube videos they may put up, if they're fundamentally uncomfortable with the idea of interacting with real people online, what's the point?

having spent the better part of a decade working at the intersection of politics and the web, i can't help but feel of a deep, deep sense of dismay that we're missing something so basic. this is exactly why i am afraid that we will be outraised by $100 million or more in 2008.
your pixels to god's ears, pat.

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quote:"it's one thing to refuse to participate in a debate held by an organization you see as partisan, whether or not your perception is correct. but to back out of a direct interface with the citizens of the united states? we'd call that cowardly."

In the words of Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias"
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 10:25 PM PDT  

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