November 12, 2008
Truck Nutz For All!
For half a day, at least, it was the most inspired political stunt on teh interwebs...
Recently, some gormless hack over at the Republican Party had presumably surveyed the wreckage of the GOP and remembered reading somewhere that their Obama-nemesis had used this new-fangled Internet thing to galvanise support. So he or she decided to ape this tactic by setting up a site that would give Joe The Plumber Public an opportunity to suggest ideas for "rebuilding" the party. However, that hack forgot something very important called moderation...
The wags over at political gossip site, Wonkette, quickly latched on to it and submitted their own suggestion - "Truck Nutz for all! Give all red-blooded Americans a pair of Truck Nuts for their F150's!" (For those of you who are unaware, these are Truck Nuts.) They then encouraged their rather substantial readership to vote for it. In the space of four hours, "Truck Nutz For All!" thus became the de-facto Number One Idea for the rebuilding of the Republican Party.
Shortly thereafter, it was pulled from the site, but not before giving us yet another moment of comedy gold in a campaign that has already been a veritable treasure trove.
Posted by Warren at November 12, 2008 11:12 AM