Bitch you could not pay me enough!

Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web -- and you could win valuable prizes!

That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines the features of "AstroTurf" campaigning with the sort of customer-loyalty programs offered by airlines, hotel chains, restaurants and the occasional daily newspaper.

On McCain's Web site, visitors are invited to "Spread the Word" about the presumptive Republican nominee by sending campaign-supplied comments to blogs and Web sites under the visitor's screen name. The site offers sample comments ("John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan . . .") and a list of dozens of suggested destinations, conveniently broken down into "conservative," "liberal," "moderate" and "other" categories. Just cut and paste.

So this is what the Republican party is reduced to? Offering prizes to anybody willing to push the Republican talking points without letting the reader know that their opinion is for sale?

Now that I think about it, I am not at all surprised.

For the record I have not received any reward, or offer of reward, for saying anything positive about Barack Obama or any other Democratic politician. And if it were offered I would turn it down. It is a little thing we liberals call "integrity". Perhaps that is a word that the righties need to commit to memory.