On Twitter, you can mark any word (or combination of words) you want with a hashtag (#) #likethis. Naturally, as part of the current election season, liberals have been trying to create various Twitter tags (#ows for Occupy Wall Street, #P2 for Progressive on Twitter, etc.) Anyone on Twitter can use any hashtag for anything.
The problem for them is that there’s no hashtag they can create that conservatives can’t hijack. Frankly, I’ve never seen the right lose a serious Twitter war yet.
Today’s example of hijinks ensuing: #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone. Some samples:
The People’s Cube @ThePeoplesCube #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone lost America’s AAA credit rating
Leah @gopfirecracker #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone implied that minorities are too stupid to obtain a photo ID
BattleSwarm @BattleSwarmBlog #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone Launched a political career in the home of an admitted terrorist
Yep, the last one is me. I had a lot of fun with that tag.
You can see more examples of this #liberalfail on Twitchy.
About Lawrence Person
Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.
