Breaking: Mitt Romney is a childish little shit. His Web site proves it.
So here I am on a Saturday evening, working through a bit for the History Commons about Romney's neoconservative foreign policy team (Bolton, Kagan, and Edelman, oh my, and a subject well worth discussing on its own), when I go hunting for a link to Romney's October 2011 white paper on foreign policy. The link provided by the Washington Post takes me to a 404 error page on the Romney site. Follow me over the transom to see what I saw.
Every Web designer worth a damn designs a unique 404 error page for his or her site, or the client's site. If not, you're likely to see some variant of the drab default 404 page such as Internet Explorer coughs up:
Whoever designed Romney's page indeed provided a "unique" 404 page for Romney's site. I imagine everyone had a good Thurston Howell chuckle over the designer's 404 page before they went off to post ten thousand-dollar side bets on Biff and Buffy's evening polo match. Here's a snippet, in all of its childish glory.
Didja see it, didja didja huh huh? "Something seems to have Gone Wrong," the site intones. Accompanying this typical "oopsie" disclaimer is a washed-out, two-color graphic of ... a Democratic donkey in full kick. Hey! the site seems to say. Those damn liberal Demonrats made our site malfunction! Demonrats make everything malfunction! But, To Find Your Way out of that morass of Liberal Error, just click on the nice big link that takes you to Mitt's home page. Ahhhh. Sweet relief. Everything will be okay now.
Want to talk about the "slanty"-eyed, obviously Asian (or "Oriental" or other words evocative of Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, or My Lai) or even Satanic appearance of the donkey's face (those sure look more like horns than ears to me)? We can if you like, it's right there. Or something an elementary-school kid would pick up on within seconds, that the 404 error text seems to have been, well, poo'd out of the donkey's hindquarters.
Who thought this was a sober, presidentially weighty design idea for the site of someone who thinks he's the best choice to Lead the Free World? It's more like something a clever fifth-grader whose dad has taught him to Hate the Magic Negro-in-Chief would have sketched out. Childish, vindictive, immature, and unworthy of someone who thinks his royal ass ought to sit in the big chair.
Grow up, Mittens.