Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform just hosted a meeting of Republican/conservative/libertarian techie types—everyone from MyManMitt.com founder Justin Hart to anarcho-capitalist Jason Talley. David All was kind enough to put his Powerpoint online, if you want a peek at the cutting edge of online GOP strategizing. Spoiler: Twitter is involved.
Change is definitely afoot, but from what I’ve been hearing so far, the GOP seems headed to the same impasse the Democrats struggled with for the past 5 years: It’s not Facebook or “the Twitter” itself that saves you, it’s what you’re saying to voters with “the Twitter.”
Also, encouraging your committee chairs to stop calling it “the Twitter” might be a good idea.
Their first twitter post:
“headed down to the sizzler to get some supply side salad bar. OMG FICA!”
You’re wrong. “the Twitter” will definitely save the GOP – even if they spew the same garbage ideas and back the same hypocritical candidates that got them here through their new supertool