In the world of political discourse, such as it is rather than as we wish it to be, you are nobody without an ad. 

Well, move over, MoveOn.  We have an ad, too.  Headline:  Convicted Felon Controls Democratic Party.  Big old picture of George Soros, the billionaire bad boy of leftist politics.  Copy describing his conviction for insider trading, upheld by the highest court in France.  Copy describing his large and numerous financial contributions made to push the Democratic Party so far left that it will only need one primary -- somewhere in the Pacific.

Don't expect to see our ad in The New York Times.

We don't have the money to run it in The New York Times.  Not at $142,083, the stated price the Times now says MoveOn should have been charged (and eventually paid, most likely in an attempt to mitigate charges now before the Federal Election Commission).  Not at the special discount rate of $64,575 the newspaper tried to slip under the table to MoveOn.

Even if we had the money, we wouldn't run our ad in The New York Times. 

We don't want to be associated with a newspaper accused of making illegal contributions to a political action committee after writing tons of editorials over the years assuring readers that making corporate contributions to a political action committee should be illegal.

We don't want to be associated with a newspaper that, at last count, has given at least three different reasons why it gave MoveOn a whopping illegal discount to run its ad personally attacking General Petraeus.  Just imagine what that very same newspaper would do to any conservative who gave reporters at least three different reasons for anything, never mind charges of illegal activity. 

The most recent explanation is that some unnamed employee under circumstances the newspaper won't discuss even with one of its own reporters made a "mistake."  That would, of course, beg the question of how many previous "mistakes" were made in pricing ads to MoveOn, which has indicated paying the same discounted rate for past ads.

We don't want to be associated with a newspaper that, under current management, seems to believe separating the business, news and editorial departments of the newspaper is but a quaint conceit of a bygone era, to be discarded whenever there are liberal causes to be supported, which would be multiple times daily by any objective count.

We wouldn't run our ad in The New York Times because most of its readers undoubtedly think Mr. Soros is a great American despite that pesky felony conviction and hijacking the Democratic Party by the fanatic fringe left is one of those really good progressive ideas.

Somewhere in America, there is undoubtedly some newspaper that still serves citizen Democrats who share our dismay about the destruction of a once-great, once-mainstream political party.  That newspaper is probably small enough that we can even afford its stated ad rate, provided without fear or favor or violation of law.