Remember the Democrat's YouTube-fueled debate last week that featured talking snowmen, marriage-minded lesbians, and a guy who cradled an automatic weapon in his arms and called it "my baby?" Seems like the Republican version may not be quite as interesting. As of now, John McCain, Ron Paul, and Tommy Thompson have signed on to be interrogated by the "YouTubeites" on September 17, front runners Mitt Romney and Rudy Guiliani have not. At first, Romney pooh-poohed the format, claiming that answering questions from Frosty the Global Warming Challenged Snowman wasn't dignified enough. Democrats gleefully accused them of laying a big egg in front of a generation of Net-savvy voters. Right-wing bloggers and political consultants started SaveTheDebate.com, begging the candidates to step up and face the Web cam. News today that Romney says he might participate after all, if debate organizers move the event so he can clear up some scheduling conflicts. No word yet from the other 137 Republican hopefuls. But then if Romney does take part, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune, he seems to think YouTube is actually MySpace:
"YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other," Romney explained. "YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000."
Maybe he should get together with the Senator from Alaska who thinks the Internet is a series of big tubes!
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Now that's what I call a big tube!
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