Here we go again.  By now it is obvious. The media’s candidate for 2028 is the Democrats’ California Governor Gavin Newsom. With a full two years before the next presidential election officially begins, the media has their man. Newsom a Democrat, but of course. The Republicans will also have to pick a new candidate, as President Trump is ineligible to run for a third term. While Vice President J.D. Vance is doubtless the GOP frontrunner, nothing is set in stone. Except for one thing. No matter who the GOP selects, the media will be cheering for Newsom and Democrats. The mistake in understanding this is to believe there is anything new about this.   Not only is media bias for the Democrat nominee predictable, the media’s devotion to any Democrat nominee is by now a longstanding precedent. How longstanding? Start all the way back there in the stone age of 1960. For an appreciation of this readers can thank the long ago Pulitzer Prize winning political journalist Theodore H. White. It was White who first had the idea of covering the behind-the-scenes goings on of a presidential campaign and writing it up in book form. White did just that, winning his Pulitzer for his groundbreaking bestseller The Making of the President 1960.  The book is a gold mine of behind the scenes episodes in that now-legendary campaign between then-Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, and the Democrat nominee, Massachusetts U.S. Senator, the young (42) and movie-star handsome John F. Kennedy.  As White makes crystal clear, the media of the day had a serious bias in favor of Democrat JFK. White wrote this of the media covering JFK: By the last weeks of the campaign, those 40 or 50 correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps—they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. When the bus or the plane rolled out or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr. Nixon  and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. And four years later, in the race between Democrat President Lyndon Johnson and the GOP’s “Mr. Conservative” - Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater? The media of the day was preaching essentially that Goldwater was not merely a conservative nut but was extremely dangerous in the nuclear age and would quite possibly start a nuclear war. Safe to say, a full two years before the 2028 election, the media is flooded with stories praising or admiring the Democrat California governor.  Samples:  Fox News hosts get in fiery clash as panelist says Gavin Newsom is 'doing something very smart’  This from the Tribune News Service: Governor Gavin Newsom is smart to roll the dice  From The List: Side By Side Pics Of Gavin Newsom Prove He's Aging Like Fine Wine (Sorry, Kimberly Guilfoyle)  The Economic Times: Gavin Newsom, rather than Donald Trump, is grabbing headlines in Davos - here's what he said  Reuters: Newsom says he was blocked from speaking at Davos  In short, two years before the election the media has already chosen a side. No matter the GOP nominee, the media is Going for Gavin. There is not the slightest surprise here. This is the same old, quite tired move from the media in a presidential election. 1960 is long gone. 68 years back once we get to the next presidential campaign. But not unlike the Law of Gravity, some things never change. And whomever is the Republican nominee, he and his running mate need to be ready to go, understanding that they are facing more than the Democrat nominee -- Newsom probably -- and be ready to take on the Newsom-loving media. Which is already showing itself.