McCain on the Superhighway, Attempts to Appeal to Reagan Conservatives

John McCain has launched his website, johnmccain.com, which he claims to be "a departure from the tradiitional campaign website." Upon first look, all you really notice is that it's black and white (insert jokes relating website colors to personality here), but once you get to the videos you see that he's got other things on his mind. He's a conservative again!

The site includes a video entitled "Reagan Tribute," which is a montage of pictures showing McCain at Reagan's side and of course another POW plug.



To make sure that viewers get the message that John McCain likes Ronald Reagan so much because he is a conservative too, McCain lays it out there saying, "I am confident that the reason why I hold a lot of the philosophical views that I have are the inspiration of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, there's no doubt about it."

Of course there is also the please-seperate-me-from-George W. Bush-plug, "One of the things that caused our defeat in 2006 is we strayed from many of [Reagan's] principles, we forgot where we were and who we are."

But McCain does seem to have the internet crowd down. He, like everyone else, has his own blog, and perhaps the most innovative thing: YouTube town hall! Now we've seen how YouTube has destroyed candidates (read: Mukaka), but John McCain seems to be attempting to use it as his advantage. The idea is that you put a video on YouTube asking John McCain about an issue that is important to you, register the video on McCain's site, and he posts responses. Pretty nifty way to get plenty of your supporters on YouTube...we'll see how it works.

The Undecided page helps voters to choose John McCain in an ever-widening field of Republican contenders for President when none seem to be taking center-stage. The site is certainly more fun than http://www.joinrudy2008.com/, and A LOT better than the Solutions America (Rudy's PAC) site, which is literally just a logo.