2009 definitely won’t be remembered as the year that the GOP triumphantly entered social media. After launching a website that featured an animated GIF of Michael Steele and a blog by Steele originally called “What Up,” a blank “future leaders” section, and a user-submitted Facebook photo page that soon got flooded with racist pictures, they’ve given it another crack, and launched … GOP.am, a URL shortener. How could that possibly go wrong? Plenty of ways, as it turns out:

Yesterday, left-wing bloggers, right-wing bloggers, no-wing bloggers, social media junkies, and old media types all banded together for one purpose: to make fun of the GOP’s brand-new website. How did GOP.com, which RNC Chairman Michael Steele touted as a “new platform” for the party, go wrong? Let us count the ways: