February 14, 2010 09:16 PM UTC

The Worst Campaign Website We've Ever Seen

•  
• by: Colorado Pols

In the helpful spirit of today’s discussion about online etiquette, here’s another instructive visual. The campaign website of one Gary Kennedy, GOP state house candidate for Rep. Ellen Roberts’ HD-59 seat, looks like it was made by a chimpanzee with markers strapped to its hands.

Let’s get past the obvious problems here, like the failure to spell the word “candidate” correctly in the headline (though seriously, folks). What’s up with the “Sep 28 2003” timestamp on the background photo? Why the hell wouldn’t you crop that off? Just the first in a line of questions about this site that all end in, “so a second-grader made it, right?”

We’re glad to see, though, like the whole Republican Party, that Mr. Kennedy is “backing off” his, um, U.S. Senate campaign. We’d sure like to read the story he refers to with “See the story,” but unfortunately it doesn’t actually link anywhere. We assume the “contribute” button, on the other hand, does work, but it’s not like we’re going to click it after all we’ve been through to get to it.

It’s not the first time we’ve thought that a candidate might be better served with no website at all, but we don’t know when we’ve ever felt that way, you know, so strongly.