Fred08 - great site, too bad it doesn't work

I expected more from the Fred Thompson campaign than the others. This guy, who recorded a great YouTube rebuttal to Michael Moore, seemed like the "hippest dude" among the Republican candidates (I know that's not saying much...).

So I went to his new site tonite, after the big announcement, and was surprised and thrilled to see the home page taken up by a bold request to "join" and asking for first and last name, email address and zip. I signed up, and then was directed to a page requiring a street address and a password. It also invited me to enter my cell phone and IM information, but hey, we're not that committed to the campaign.

So imagine my frustration when I got this error message:

Your friend account was not created. Please try again.

So I did try again. And again. and again. Same message. What was I doing wrong? Often it's a password problem (too short, needs a number or alpha character) but here, no explanation. Nada. Insert another quarter and try again.

I even tried it in MSIE instead of my native FireFox, thinking maybe they weren't that hip after all. No dice there either.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!