Tom Knapp’s post on the LP’s 2008 prez candidates to George Phillies’ campaign page. While I’ve personally been soured on voting at all, I just couldn’t let this slide by unnoted. A few things stuck out about his website that strike me as….counterproductive:

1) The last lines on the opening page about immigration — “Americans who quote the Statue of Liberty’s message ‘Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ should remember that it was written when France, Germany and Russia were autocratic monarchies. The huddled masses of Europe now breathe free” — could be worded better. I personally got his overall point right away, but some people might misinterpret that last part as a racial comment.

2) the color scheme is a bit….odd. Yell at me all you want for saying this, but the pink & the rainbow banner are sending signals that make the words said seem less serious. It’s “striking” but not in a good way.

3) someone in Knapp’s comments mentioned it & I agree with it: that picture on the front page ain’t cuttin it. Looks like a DMV photo.

4) the wording of the “Important issues” partial on the main page & those same bullet points on the actual “Important Issues” page is identical. You want to drive your point home even further on the inner pages, the introduction was already done on the front.

Yeah, they’re superficial. If I were in the voting mood I wouldn’t be using any of this as reason not to support him, it’s irrelevant to his actual positions. Problem is, there are people out there for who image actually matters.

Hey, how else do you explain who ends up winning our goofy-ass elections?

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