It wasn’t that long ago when former Senator John Edwards labeled the Iraq troop surge plan the ‘McCain Doctrine’. Apparently the folks over at MoveOn.org liked that idea so much they devoted not only a section of their Web site to the idea BUT put together an early attack ad against the Senator just to drive home the point.

Here it is:

John McCain’s Exploratory Committee has decided to squash the facts in those ads by setting up the following section on its Web site www.exploremccain.com/moveonresponse/ which is a biting attack against… oh wait… actually it is just a page asking for money. ouch!

Now not to attack the Senator any further but there are some people who are using this whole Internet technology well thus far and others who, well, not so much. I would have to say you are on the not so much side.

I found out about the Senator’s response in an e-mail message sent to everyone on his mailing list. Okay, that is good, e-mail is a thirty year old technology that hit its height in the 1990’s BUT it is a good start when responding to someone who has put ads on the TV AND all across the Internets trashing your good name.

Good start but, really, why not respond by putting an entire page up about how you know more about fighting a war then those two screen saver makers over at MoveOn.org probably know about C Programming. (I am guessing they know a lot about C programming too!)

You might want to think about going a step further then just getting money. Give the people something to look at or talk through. In fact, most of your Web site is in black and white. Looks okay, but age isn’t exactly on your side in this race. Everyone went gaga a couple weeks ago because the young Barack Obama took his shirt off on the beach. You don’t exactly have that. You might want to try some colors. Maybe a red or a blue.

I mean look at that. Goto Apple.com, that is a GREAT example of a site in black and white that offers a TON of information, products, videos and other content in different colors that looks amazing. Then look at your site. Isn’t that like Template 1A in Dreamweaver?

Senator John Edwards has podcasts and YouTube videos. The big excitement on your site (under the giant DONATE and SUBSCRIBE links) is a grey link to a Federalist Society address. Yeah, the Federalist Party went the way of the plantation in what, 1816, maybe 1825 at the latest? So basically you are shooting for those over fifty who are nostalgic for the ideals of their great grandparents?

Note this is not an attack on the man. I try and keep things non partisan here. I am sure I will comment on more Web sites in the coming months and there will be plenty of nonsense happening on Democrats Web sites. So save your hate mail. I love John McCain and I write out of that love to tell him, it might be time to step into 2008 and get that site roaring!