Growing pains. This is probably the biggest example we've seen of this up to this point (I'm not counting Wiener or whatsisname on Craigslist because that's a separate issue), but we're going to go through a period where "potentially embarrassing shit online" sinks some campaigns, and then after awhile it won't be a thing anymore because fucking everybody running for anything is going to have potentially embarrassing shit online.
I want to re-iterate; she was posting about this on daily kos on the same account she'd been using to post about her campaign.
Well, no, more accurately she posted about her campaign on the same account she'd previously used to post about WoW.
And she didn't post very damn much about her campaign; I see a single
offhand reference to it from two months ago. She hasn't posted much of anything since March, and if I'm not mistaken the specific comments they stuck on the flyer are literally years old.
From where I'm sitting she's responded the sensible way: "It's a video game. Hundreds of millions of people play video games. Sounds to me like you're out-of-touch." If she'd overreacted by taking her posts down or something, that would have been a whole lot more damaging; it would have given in to their narrative that they were actually relevant.
I'm currently looking for work. I also currently have a post titled "Assholes/Pee" on the front page of my blog.
I admit this has given me a bit of pause. But I also decided a long time ago that fuck it, if a company's going to pass me over because of something it found on my blog (or these forums, or wherever), it's probably not going to be a very friendly place to work anyway.
Anyhow. Whether she was foolish for writing about her campaign on the same account she used for WoW or not, well, we're likely to find out in a month. From where I'm sitting this tack reeks of desperation, but that doesn't necessarily mean it won't work.
EDIT TO ADD:
I don't know when she started, but I really want to see the campaign ad:
"I was the leader of a 40-man Naxx guild.. Come on, guys, you know what I'm talking about. That shit's worse than dealing with Congress; I know what I'm doing."
Reminds me of McCain's response when someone complained that he'd been in an R-rated movie with nudity (Wedding Crashers): "I'm in the Senate. I deal with boobs every day."
