The GOP Chooses John McCain For You
 Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The first e-mail I got from the Republican National Committee about John McCain was last month, right after the New York Times lobbyist article.  But last night was a two-for:  the GOP headquarters sent out two e-mails to registered Republicans.  The first titled, "Volunteer to Help John McCain Win!"  The second, "Senator McCain and the Republican Party are Counting on You!"

Although the e-mail defending John McCain against what the GOP called the "liberal mainstream media" was irksome in its mention of a single Republican candidate, one could at least reason that they were attempting to fight back at the miniscandal the Times article might have caused.

But these two most recent messages from the GOP are unforgivable.

"The Presidential election is eight months away...There are two things you can do right now to help support John McCain's Presidential election effort," Jo Ann Davidson, Co-Chairman of the Republican National Committee wrote.

"Last night, Senator John McCain wrapped up the Republican Presidential nomination," wrote Robert M. "Mike" Duncan, Chairman of the Republican National Committee.  "Today, he met with President Bush at the White House to accept the President's congratulations for securing the support to claim our Party's nomination."

Not a surprise: the GOP has been blatantly supporting John McCain as their top candidate for a while now now, as has the President.

Folks, there are eight months until the elections in November.  And there is no possible way that the amount of delegates for the states that have already held their primaries are final numbers.  Ohio counties, as we mentioned yesterday, have until April to send in their provisional ballots to the Board of Elections, which can account for up to 15% of each district in the state.

Provisional ballots in many other states have yet to be counted.

And there are still 13 states that have not even held their primaries yet:  Wyoming (March 8th); Mississippi (March 11th); Pennsylvania (April 22nd); Indiana and North Carolina (May 6th); Nebraska and West Virginia (May 13th); Kentucky and Oregon (May 20th); Idaho (May 27th); Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota (June 3rd).

Don't let the Republican National Committee make up your mind for you if you are voting Republican.  There are still three Republican candidates in the race.  It's bad enough that the GOP has stood for the unequal media coverage among those three thusfar, supported it even.

In the words of Dan Rather, "There's been a growing influence of big corporate power in working with big Washington power, having too much influence in the newsrooms."

But the fact that they're declaring their winner this early in the year - it's just a sickening slap in the face to delegates and voters who haven't had their say yet, and who have minds of their own.

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