The Republican National Committee sent a certified letter to me asking for an emergency donation to the McCain campaign. The emergency is that they’re nine million dollars short of their August goal. I’m afraid I can’t help them with that.

I’m still trying to figure out why they felt the need to send a certified letter. Perhaps it’s because I haven’t responded to the hundred or so they sent through regular mail. Perhaps it was just supposed to impress me to the point that I would dig deep and fire off an overnight check back to them.

Whatever their intent they ended up hacking me off. I had to drive to the post office to pick up the letter. I thought it was a summons to jury duty. Those are the only certified letters I’ve gotten — until now.

I’ve complained before about the RNC spending all the money I give them trying to get me to give more.