They're Doing It To Us Again

I thought we had all promised ourselves that we were not going to let the media pick our candidates for us this time around?  No way.  We've got all of this new media, and we've had all of these debates and we are all better informed than ever before. And yet here we are, barely past the New Hampshire primaries, and Mitt Romney is already the "inevitable" nominee.  Of the 1144 delegates needed for a first-ballot victory at the National Convention, 12 have already been selected and Mitt Romney has exactly 7 of them.  An overwhelming lead.

Face it, the major media have control of the narrative of this election, and right now their message is "Quick! Quick!  You have to choose NOW!!" Using words like "momentum," which would seem to be pretty meaningless in this context, they are nonetheless stampeding us towards a candidate that most of us think that the media think would be easiest for Obama to defeat. I swear that, of all the Charlie Browns in the world, we conservatives are the Charlie Browniest because we fall for that major media Lucy-with-the-football trick every time. They seem to attack all of our candidates but one, and claim he is our favorite (everybody knows it). They will bring out poll after poll to prove it and, rather than making up our own minds we seem to accept that conventional wisdom, paying no attention to who it is telling it to us.  Once their chosen nominee is in place, they will turn on him like a pack of hounds, yanking the football away.  When will we ever learn?