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Activism Alert: Save the Debate
By sage of monticello | July 31, 2007
Sign the Petition. Join the group. Make a difference.
Save the debate is an attempt to reverse two trends among the GOP Presidential candidates.
First, Save the Debate doesn’t want the GOP Presidential candidates to skip the conservative version of the YouTube debate.
Second, Save the Debate wants to close the gap between Republicans and Democrats in the utilization and adaptation of new technologies for political purposes.
It’s a very simple choice: Do you want to have Republicans address our generation in the format our generation prefers, or don’t you?
If you do, sign the petition; join the group; and make a difference.
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Topics: Activism Alert, save the debate |
July 31st, 2007 at 7:03 pm
It is an unfortunate and baseless stereotype that Democrats have the advantage in “utilization and adaptation of new technologies.” Since 2000, we have seen that Republicans are at the forefront of organizing and utilizing evolving technologies in the political arena.
A Republican disadvantage in our age bracket (18-24 year-olds) is something we as CRs have always dealt with, but it does not mean a Republican disadvantage in technology.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Mr Burks,
You say, “Republicans [are] at the forefront of organizing and utilizing evolving technologies in the political arena”
Maybe in GOTV efforts, but not in many others. If your statement is true, then why are Republicans “cutting and running” from the YouTube debate format - a format which if utilized really would put Republicans at the forefront or at least closer to it. If Republicans were at the forefront they would participate.
But sadly Republicans are not serious like the Democrats who reach out to new demographics by utilizing new technological/political strategies. And then a group comes along to change that (save the debate) and you roundly critize the premises upon which they function as “baseless.”
Not to mention Republican participation in the YouTube might help change for CRs what you accept as an unequivocal truth: that 18-24 year olds are liberal.
This party doesn’t need more of the same (corruption, or rejection of new political technology) and neither do CRs. Maybe that is why you were impeached.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Thank you for your comments and your anonymous attacks.
I was not attacking Save the Debate…I think the candidates should participate. But I do not think that Republicans are at a disadvantage technologically. The misconception is that we are behind in the youth demographic and that automatically puts us behind in using up-to-date technology. I am not saying we don’t need to worry about staying on the cutting edge of technological advances in politics because we certainly do. What I AM saying is that CRs don’t need to go around hysterically claiming that our party is behind the times because some candidates don’t think it is respectable to have to answer questions from talking snowmen. If you feel that is the case, then only vote for candidates who choose to take part in the debate.
I’m sure I know you, but you’ve bravely hidden behind an anonymous posting so the rest of your ad hominem attacks are meaningless. I hardly think that rejecting a YouTube debate is tied to a culture of corruption and I am positive Missouri College Republicans, whatever their concern with me may be, would disagree that I have contributed to the current corruption in MOCR.
As I have suggested before, we need to act a little more professionally (even on blogs) before people will start to take CRs seriously.