anything goes for bush/cheney ’04
this wouldn’t be worth mentioning in any form, if it weren’t for the golden quote at the end.
what we have here is a story about a utah republican that’s spent $30k or so buying up domain names that seem capital-d democratic and pointing them to the bush/cheney ’04 re-election site. there’s potential for blowback on all this, of course, but mostly it’s a non-story. people play games with domains all the time.
then i saw this:
Utah Man Buys Up Domain Names in Bush Push [ap via abc news, august 26, 2004]Kevin Madden, a spokesman for Bush/Cheney ’04, said the campaign’s Internet staffers were unaware of the connection.
“But anything that directs traffic to our site is fine with us,” he said.
which seems to be about as close to the truth as i’ve ever seen from a political spokesperson.
two thoughts: 1) i’m sure there’s something that would cross even kevin’s line when it comes to drivig traffic to the site, and 2) isn’t that just begging for a ddos attack?