Conservatives take over Obama's latest hashtag

Despite its abysmal track record of launching hashtags on Twitter the Obama campaign decided to try again tonight. Thus #WhatsRomneyHiding was born.

https://twitter.com/#!/BarackObama/status/188046540475088897

Of course the hashtag, which became a worldwide trending topic, hasn’t been used as Obama’s campaign intended. Instead of demands to see Mitt Romney’s tax returns the hashtag is filled with random jokes and tweets mocking Obama. Here are the best #WhatsRomneyHiding tweets.

https://twitter.com/#!/NeoconBlonde/status/188054467416043520

https://twitter.com/#!/guypbenson/status/188048610187935744

https://twitter.com/#!/JonahNRO/status/188052524023025665

https://twitter.com/#!/hoosierclinger/status/188055696753954816

https://twitter.com/#!/SamValley/status/188055809169702912

https://twitter.com/#!/mantone1/status/188056275731488768

https://twitter.com/#!/Professor_Why/status/188056245956116481

https://twitter.com/#!/I_Hate_Hippies/status/188055884352585729

https://twitter.com/#!/EMcLean1982/status/188055873644544000

https://twitter.com/#!/Jbroks86/status/188055857752326144

https://twitter.com/#!/JLThorpe/status/188058590072938496

https://twitter.com/#!/chefbrink/status/188058537631551488

https://twitter.com/#!/jimreittinger/status/188058507352883201

https://twitter.com/#!/MeganSmiles/status/188058448292876288

https://twitter.com/#!/theaugur/status/188058425731719169

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https://twitter.com/#!/Herfarm/status/188057303843487745

https://twitter.com/#!/baseballcrank/status/188058428508348416

https://twitter.com/#!/DrewMTips/status/188059076448616448

https://twitter.com/#!/kesgardner/status/188058828393283584

https://twitter.com/#!/MrPartisan/status/188060177109483520

https://twitter.com/#!/OklahomaAdam/status/188059964613476353

https://twitter.com/#!/keder/status/188049889580687360

https://twitter.com/#!/SamAdamsTPP/status/188060289772699648

https://twitter.com/#!/TBradleyNC/status/188060256000151554

The fact that the Obama new media campaign team keeps launching hashtags when they’re inevitably going to be taken over and used to mock their candidate is confounding. Is this the worst new media team in politics? What other explanation is there?

UPDATE: Not satisfied with hijacking #WhatsRomneyHiding it seems that conservatives have created the worldwide trending topic #WhatsObamaHiding to further criticize the President.