Is there anything funnier than watching Republicans trying to figure out Twitter?

Yes, there sure is: watching Republicans trying to build a website. The new GOP.com was…let’s say undercooked upon its launch.

• RNC Chairman Michael Steele pops up in a format typically associated with dancing hamsters and offers to consolidate your bills/get a fake Internet degree/get a new mortgage. He also has a blog called “What Up.” (The blog has been renamed “Change the Game.” I’m 99% sure they didn’t catch the irony). His opening sentence? “The internet has been around for a while, now.”
• The “Future Leaders” section of the website was empty. (It’s now been updated, in a Time-style cop-out, to “You.”)
• The Republican Party hosted a kick-off conference call to announce its grand new venture (it’s “become a personal thing” to Steele!), the website was down. The first question during the conference call was a Hispanic woman who asked why there was no Spanish-language version of the site.
• The site’s admin information was posted for the public to see.
• Gawker noted that Jackie Robinson was posted as one of the GOP’s “Heroes.” You know, the guy who left the party and said this about the 1964 Republican Convention:”A new breed of Republicans had taken over the GOP. As I watched this steamroller operation in San Francisco, I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”

Let’s put it succinctly:

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