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Fun with political domain names
By adamg on Sun, 09/18/2005 - 8:44pm
Bill White is running for state Senate in Somerville and Medford. His Web site, www.billwhiteforsenate.com, doesn't mention what party he belongs to. www.whiteforsenate.com corrects that oversight.
Via David, who, after admiring the mildly amusing content of the latter site, says it's kind of juvenile:
... Certainly, it's fair to ask Mr. White the extent to which he supports the stated platform of the party of which he is a member. But to suggest - by posting a link on the joke site - that White supports, for example, the Article 8 Alliance (the dopes who want to impeach the SJC Justices who voted for gay marriage) isn't especially constructive. ...
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Comments
Not funny
To be effective, satire has to be funny and have some relationship to reality. The whiteforsenate.com page fails both tests.
If you actually know Bill White, you'd realize that he finds the Christian Coalition, Article 8 Alliance, Rick Santorum, and other right-wing nuts anathema to everything he stands for. He's not too fond of Mitt Romney, either. He considers himself a Republican in the tradition of Rockefeller, Frank Sargent, Edward Brooke, Eliot Richardson, and Bill Weld.
If neither Joe Mackey nor Pat Jehlen had won the Democratic primary last month, many left-leaning Democrats would likely be supporting Bill White next week.
I'm voting for Pat Jehlen, but I find the whiteforsenate.com 'parody' to be offensive, and wish whoever created it would take it down.
(P.S. Have you noticed that its links to the Christian Coalition and Article 8 Alliance have now disappeared?)