Trying to pitch the idea of the internet to a group of people who last interacted with a computer in a brief seven minute tryst with CompuServe in 1995 is hard, and harder still after their feelings about the medium were brutally confirmed when ABC paraded through everyone on MySpace in a degenerate child rapist review.

But the Republican party is going to change all that, because now they have a blog and blah blah blah, Barack Obama has a billion Myspace friends, and he has sex with like half of them!, blah blah blah blah, WEB 2.0! blah blah...

2008, where reporting on social networking sites is the new/hipper/dumber, "could you see yourself having a beer with the candidate?"

Another Republican -- Michael Turk, who was in charge of Internet strategy for President Bush's 2004 campaign -- puts the problem his party faces more bluntly: "We're losing the Web right now."

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There are other measures as well. No Republican comes close to matching the popularity of another Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois,
on YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, the social-networking triumvirate. The
Democrats are ahead in the online money race. The top three Democrats, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama and Edwards, amassed more than $14 million over the Internet in the first three months of 2007; in contrast, the top three Republicans, Giuliani, McCain and Romney, collected less than half of that, $6
million. Furthermore, ABC PAC, the conservative fundraising site, has raised $385 so far for Republican presidential hopefuls; Act Blue, its liberal counterpart, has collected about $3 million for Edwards alone.

For those yearning for the sweet and merciful embrace of self immolation, don't reach for the gas can yet.

John Boehner, the Republican House leader from Ohio with surprisingly normal looking hair for a man of his political stature, has joined networking site Twitter. With the ironic detachment angle of your Ron Paul for President Myspace account waning, wile away another precious ten seconds of your life by showing that you've got nothing more pressing to do than having John Boehner as your internet BFF4eva.