Dear Chris,

It's now less than four months until Election Day 2008, and the Democrats and their leftist allies are unleashing their full arsenal of smear-and-fear tactics against John McCain and our Republican candidates.

With the help of Big Labor, radical groups like MoveOn.org, and George Soros and other left-wing billionaires, the Democrats have over a billion dollars to blanket America's airwaves with partisan, misleading attacks.

This is all on top of the fawning, one-sided coverage Barack Obama and Democrat candidates receive from the mainstream media.

Recently, The New York Times ran an editorial from Barack Obama spelling out his desire to withdraw from Iraq before victory is achieved.  When John McCain wrote a rebuttal against Obama's plan for defeat, the Times refused to print it, citing as their reason, "it would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece."  

What New York Times editors don't seem to understand is that John McCain doesn't base his positions on what the liberal media wants, but what he knows to be right for America.  

If our candidates are to achieve victory this November, they must get their message of commonsense conservatism and principled leadership past the media filter and directly to the voters who will decide our nation's future course.

They need your help to do that.

Please make a secure online contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50 or $25 today to provide Republican candidates with the resources they urgently need to counter the Democrats' attacks and set the record straight.

The RNC is the ONLY Party committee permitted by law to directly support our Republican presidential nominee, John McCain.  The RNC also provides more financial assistance and campaign services to Republican candidates than any other Party organization.

We can't afford to let our opponents' media hype and pie-in-the-sky promises drown out our message of principled conservative government.  So please take a moment right now to make a secure online contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50 or $25 and help our GOP candidates fight back against the Democrats' onslaught and set the stage for Republican victory today.

Sincerely,

Robert M. "Mike" Duncan
Chairman, Republican National Committee

P.S.  Chris, powerful leftist forces will spend whatever it takes to elect Barack Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket to impose their radical agenda on America.  Help us make sure they don't succeed by making a secure online campaign contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50 or $25 to the RNC today.  Thank you.

(And BTW, is "commonsense" even a real word?)

-chris

"Better watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a criminal, oh fanatical a liberal."