I always knew that if John McCain could embrace Twitter then I would just as soon sit it out. I mean, look at the tweet he left his faithful today, summing up the hard work of an entire week of saying "No!" in the Senate:
I'm flying home to Phoenix tomorrow morning - looking forward to a beautiful AZ weekend.
I know I couldn't live without knowing when ol' John's flying home. But that's not what this diary is about! No, this gets a little more complicated below the fold...
It actually, sort-of seemed like a good idea, at first. Especially for the technology-impaired GOP.
One can add, at the end of one's Twitter post, what's called a hashtag. A hashtag is basically a way for Twitterers to search for the occurrence of an agreed-upon word so that everyone interested in, say, tea bagging could append "#teabag" to the end of their posts. Others who wanted to join in could search for the other Twittering tea baggers here.
Well, a few weeks ago, a new hashtag was seen: "#tcot". WTF is "tcot" you ask? It stands for "Top Conservatives On Twitter" so that, presumably, only the Top, uttermost, Twittering Cons could check in on each other and, you know... What's that fancy, newfangled term they use? Network.
Unfortunately, the "#tcot" tag was started by two Conservatives... No, not the Doublemint Twins, but rather conservative activists Rob Neppell and Michael Patrick Leahy. Things went swimmingly for a while, until Neppell and Leahy had a bit of a falling-out, it seems.
Neppell announced today, from his now defunct web site:
I do not feel comfortable continuing to operate...with a partner who deliberately refuses to communicate with me on fundamental issues
But wait! There's more! If you call within the next 15 minutes, you might hear him say:
I am shutting down those aspects of TCOT which are under my control [and] asking Mike to in turn shut down http://tcotreport.com--or to relaunch it without using our group TCOT's name--and stating publicly that as co-founder of TCOT, that site does not have my approval or endorsement....
I regret that it has come to this, but here we are. I do not rule out re-activating TCOT should the situation change, but for now: we go dark.
"Go dark"? His servers will self-destruct in 10 seconds...
There's a bit more on this over at TPM where someone (thepeskyfly) left a comment that's rather apropos. It's an alternative definition of "#tcot":
Tax Cut Or Torture!
And that's the only two things the GOP has to offer any more.
Before you go, I'll leave you with a few other Twits. Monty Python was amazingly prescient in depicting the modern day Republican Party in the US: