No presidential candidate has officially jumped into the Second Life ring just yet, but volunteer supporters of John Edwards and Barack Obama have constructed simple spots to promote their candidate. No one has constructed an anti-candidate site... until now.

Today I found Disco Rudy's, an anti-Giuliani site that was set up, frankly, to completely disparage Rudy. The central image repeated throughout the place is the iconic image of John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever with Rudy's head Photoshopped on it.

It dots the landscape, Warhol-like, and sometimes sarcastic slogans ("Inform Your Spouse -- About the Divorce By holding a Press Conference"; "No Adultory Allowed -- Get a Quicky Divorce Just Like Disco Rudy") ride above it.

There's also a disco floor that you can dance on (check out my avatar showing off some moves) and a strange red-velvet tent that doesn't seem to serve any purpose.

After Googling "Disco Rudy" I found a post from "Gen. JC Christian" on the Jesus' General blog with the same Travolta/Giuliani image. I'm not sure if they're responsible for the SL site or not. But whoever is not only has it out for Rudy, they don't have a problem offending large swaths of the American population either.

Upon arriving to the site you're given a card describing the place and the motivations behind it. The following is the full text:

Welcome to Disco Rudy's, the unofficial Virtual Headquarters for the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign.

Why a disco theme? Because that's what works for Rudy. In the polls, he's the Christian right's first choice for president, and lets face it, social conservatives own the Republican nomination process.

Why is that? Why would the evangelical right, people who believe theocratic authoritarianism is a good thing--that is as long as it's the "proper" Christian brand of theocratic authoritarianism--support a candidate who:

-- Cheated on his first wife (his second cousin*) and divorced her to marry his lover.

--Cheated on his second wife, sneaking his lover past his wife and children into the NYC mayors mansion, where the Giuliani family lived (A judge eventually ordered him to stop doing it until the children left).

--Held a press conference to tell his second wife he was divorcing her to marry his lover.

Apparently, sexual morality issues aren't really as important to Christian conservatives as they've lead us to believe. They seem to be more motivated by bloodlust, xenophobia, totalitarianism and racism, because when they look at Rudy, they see a candidate who will continue killing and torturing foreign brown people and spying on the rest of us.

*not a problem in much of the Heartland.

The goal is clearly to smear Rudy. But when I showed up, the place -- like most other SL spots -- was empty.

[UPDATE] Tonight I heard from JC Christian. I asked a few questions about JC Christian's identity and motivations and received the following response:

I write Jesus' General a satirical political blog. Gen. JC Christian is a character I created to lampoon the right. I'm responsible for Disco Rudy's. my first foray into virtual reality. I signed up for Second Life about a week ago, and I'm really excited about the possibilities it offers for political satire.

For various reasons, I prefer to work under a pseudonym--JC Christian or patriotboy. JC Christian is the satire and patriotboy is the satirist. I'm known by both names on the web and have built up an identity and a reputation using those names.

I coined Disco Rudy as a nickname for Giuliani because I think it highlights his hypocrisy and that of many of his supporters. Here we have a guy with a lot of relationship baggage of the kind many conservatives are constantly railing against, yet is doing very well with social conservatives.