Support Romney - Official Newsletter

[RomneySupporter]

Hey all - I'm part of Romney's online marketing team.  I've been given the task of finding conservatives online and having them sign up in support of Romney.  Please sign up using this link http://goo.gl/TQ9WW

Go Mitt!

[DefiantSix]

Not touching that link n00b.  Not until we know more about you (that's what the welcome and introductions board is for), and it's a link that doesn't look like a phishing site.

[Splashdown]

Nope. Nothing suspicious at all about that post. :rolleyes:

[franksolich]

Nope. Nothing suspicious at all about that post. :rolleyes:

Well, what grieved me greatly was that it was posted in the DUmpster, when it belongs here.

The DUmpster's valuable real-estate; we don't need non-DUmpster material in it.

[RomneySupporter]

Hey all - sorry to get off on the wrong foot...Being completely forward, I work for an internet marketing company that is working for the Romney campaign.  The link brings your directly to the official Mitt Romney website.

[EagleKeeper]

.gl is the top level domain name for greenland.

In my view this is more then just suspious.

I wouldn't click that link to save my cat.

[franksolich]

Hey all - sorry to get off on the wrong foot...

Well now, I'm a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet, but really, the best way to get off on the right foot is by examining the forum page, the main page, to see the subject matter of each one, and then to post a thread in what seems the appropriate forum.

We do have a problem with people--members even, damn it--who think the DUmpster's all there is to conservativecave, which is w-a-a-a-y wrong.

<<a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet.

[RomneySupporter]

.gl is the top level domain name for greenland.

In my view this is more then just suspious.

I wouldn't click that link to save my cat.

goo.gl is Google's URL shortener.  We primarily focus on social media and need our URLs to be shortened because we are often limited by 140 characters.

[DefiantSix]

Hey all - sorry to get off on the wrong foot...Being completely forward, I work for an internet marketing company that is working for the Romney campaign.  The link brings your directly to the official Mitt Romney website.

Then at best, it's spam.

For most of us, Romney doesn't need us to go to a "marketing" site (which looks suspicious to begin with; you tell me that an innerwebs marketing firm can't get a domain name that would at least suggest an association with what it's supposed to be for? I call ).  Many of us have already gone to the ROMNEY campaign website http://www.mittromney.com/forms/welcome-0 and donated or volunteered what we could.

Once again, I call

[EagleKeeper]

goo.gl is Google's URL shortener.  We primarily focus on social media and need our URLs to be shortened because we are often limited by 140 characters.

You're not limited to 140 characters on a discussion board, this ain't twiter or whatever.

[thundley4]

I really don't think any candidate would give the okay to hit up message boards like this.

Look-Alike Sites Funnel Big Money to Mystery PAC
The mysterious CAPE PAC has netted more than $570,000 from apparently snookered donors. Where is the money going?
Noam Neusner, a former White House speechwriter for President George W. Bush, thought he had given $250 to Ohio GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel.

He hadn't.

Instead, Neusner was one of nearly 3,000 donors who stumbled onto a network of look-alike campaign websites that have netted more than $570,000 this year in what some are calling a sophisticated political phishing scheme.

The websites have the trappings of official campaign pages: smiling candidate photos and videos, issue pages, and a large red "donate" button at the top. Except that proceeds from the shadow sites go not to the candidates pictured, but to an obscure conservative group run by an Arizona activist.

Such doppelgänger sites exist for nearly three-dozen prominent GOP figures, including presidential nominee Mitt Romney, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and donation magnets such as Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Allen West of Florida.

Peter Pasi, who specializes in digital GOP fundraising, said the group is "exploiting donors." "The intent is to trade on someone else's name for your benefit," he said. Republican officials are concerned that the group, the Coalition of Americans for Political Equality PAC, is siphoning away money from needy GOP candidates while duping donors.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/look-alike-sites-funnel-big-money-to-mystery-pac/262150/

[RomneySupporter]

For most of us, Romney doesn't need us to go to a "marketing" site (which looks suspicious to begin with; you tell me that an innerwebs marketing firm can't get a domain name that would at least suggest an association with what it's supposed to be for? I call ).

Sorry to bother you all - The link redirects to http://www.mittromney.com/forms/email-updates-value (his main site), if someone that has clicked could vouch for that I would appreciate it.  

[RomneySupporter]

I appreciate all of your skepticism and I apologize if I wasted any of your time.

Have a nice day all

[JohnnyReb]

I checked my turnip patch today...it's going to be awhile yet before I'm in danger of falling off the turnip truck.

[Mike B the Cajun]

I checked my turnip patch today...it's going to be awhile yet before I'm in danger of falling off the turnip truck.

That is sooo stolen!! ( with appropriate citation, of course.)

[GOP Congress]

Hey all - sorry to get off on the wrong foot...Being completely forward, I work for an internet marketing company that is working for the Romney campaign.  The link brings your directly to the official Mitt Romney website, here: http://www.mittromney.com/forms/email-updates-value

If you were a real "Romney supporter," wouldn't it perchance just behoove you to provide that link to Romney's campaign rather than link your "googley-looking" link to it.

Your site name is actually registered under www.MarkMonitor.com in Boise, ID, which is one of those business ponzi scheme sites. So I would imagine you are getting some sort of link kickback. Which is fine, but don't misrepresent your intent here. If I had a business promoting a candidate, the last place I would do it is in a forum of supporters (or, frankly, any forum of interests political or not).

In short, don't disguise honest political support of a candidate from at best deceptive, snake-oil chicanery with a nice, neat screen name.

Finally, most of us here are supportive of Mitt Romney only because he has Paul Ryan on the ticket, other than the fact that I would vote EagleKeeper's cat over Obama as president. He has yet (Romney, not his cat) to prove himself as an effective defender of America's founding principles, but that's another matter.

So, RomneySupporter, welcome to the forum... but if you keep up the Amway shit, then it may be a short welcome.