Republican #IWantRepeal Campaign Goes Horribly Wrong

The NRCC launched a new anti-Obamacare campaign on Twitter and Tumblr on Thursday.

The NRCC’s campaign, which was promoted under the #iwantrepeal tag on Twitter, went well for a little while. People were signing their names as planned, and #iwantrepeal even looked like it might trend. So why was Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign’s digital director, telling his followers to check out the site?

Source: @teddygoff  /  via: @russellbrandom

Because at some point, the NRCC had lost control to the trolls:

Via: @barfcaptain

At first, a hand would pop into frame and pluck away the offending submissions:

Via: @barfcaptain

Later, though, the hand stopped showing up. Then came the deluge.

Via: @stuef

Via: @ctrlzee

Either the campaign was halted or the printer ran out of paper. In any case, the system had been overwhelmed with jokes for the better part of 10 minutes. Viewers were left with final fake-sounding real name.

A tidy lesson about life on the internet.

H/t to @stuef and Wonkette.