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Very, very funny. Do you looove Reagan? Do you loooove guns? Do you haaaate abortions? Well, that's about all that matters if you want to run the RNC. Oh, and you should probably "twitter" or "facebook" once in a while. That's important too.

This fits in with a larger debate that's been going on over the last few days about the republican party and, well, how fucked it is at the moment. While most bloggers, those who would actually know a little something about the limitations and capabilities of online communications and communities, are pointing out that "tweeting" doesn't actually do much of anything for you if you have no message worth tweeting in the first place, the various RNC candidates seem to be talking about it like its the future of the entire democratic process, that republicans ignore at their own peril.

Clearly the republicans need more than a good facebook group and a youtube channel to win elections. The democrats needed that too. A sophisticated system for message delivery is only as effective as the message, and right now most young, tech-savvy blog-having people aren't particularly interested in right-wing issues (gays-bad guns-good, as far as I can tell). Democrats were able to rebound from 2002 and 2004 not because they harnessed the awesome potential of the internets, but because a) the demographics were on their side and b) Bush was a horrible, catastrophic fuck-up of a leader. The real problem for most republicans is that they are bereft of any relevant ideas. On the biggest issue (in both the election and today), the economy, they have nothing to say. You may not be a Keynesian, but at least Obama and the democrats are aware of the gravity of the situation and are trying to do something; republicans, on the other hand, have decided to wage long, costly, battles over the auto bailout (which Bush took care of anyway), Eric Holder, and seating Al Franken. Until the republican party gets through the denial phase of grieving the death of the Reagan revolution, and starts thinking about new ways to remain relevant in a changing country, we're going to see a lot more of this hilarious twitter-to-the-rescue nonsense.