Sometime after I posted about my frustrations with Giuliani’s half-hearted Internet campaign, I realized the above headline is the one I should have used. Luckily, a friend and fellow web-watcher brought it to my attention that I’d missed one other example of the campaign’s mixed signals:
The official Giuliani MySpace profile can be found on MySpace’s 2008-themed Impact Channel. But if you want to see the full Giuliani profile, you’ll have to send a request and wait until they get around to adding you.
Except here’s the catch: They won’t add you. I just sent a friend request a little while ago, but my friend first attempted some weeks ago. Still nothing. Not to mention, every other listed candidate is putting their MySpace page to use.
Only Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo seem to have decided against having a presence on MySpace (or just haven’t got around to it yet), and so they are not among the listed. [Update: Nope, they're here and here, respectively. Even if the Impact Channel rotates the featured candidates, it's still ridiculous they show all but two at any given time.]
Giuliani’s folks can’t seem to decide whether they’re going to use this medium or not. And maybe I’m stretching the analogy too far, but isn’t equivocation what got Rudy in trouble in that first debate?
Mike Huckabee’s MySpace site is found at http://www.myspace.com/mikehuckabeeforpresident .
Jeremy, thanks for pointing that out. I’ve updated the post.