The Next Line Of Attack Roy Blunt Will Hypocritically Abandon

Speaking with KSPR and KY3 last week week, Roy Blunt expressed grave concern with a recent ad from the League of Conservation Voters criticizing his ties to big oil and energy interests and opposition to the clean energy legislation before Congress this year. In both interviews, Blunt suggested that the issue ads circumvented campaign finance laws that limit total donations to a candidate campaign.  On KSPR, he said:

The money you can spend on ads like this are unlimited, so it's an interesting way to kind of get around the campaign finance law...

It's a way to violate – it's a way to get around the campaign finance laws.

When it suits him, Blunt will shamelessly abandon this line of attack and enjoy the fruits of similar, conservative advertisements.

As everyone with half a brain knows, a few bazillion dollars will be spent by organizations of all stripes between now and November 2010.  Will Roy Blunt say they all "violate," er, "get around" campaign finance laws?  Of course not.

There's nothing illegal about an organization purchasing TV ads or billboards asking a leader to support their position, even when it's not convenient for Roy Blunt. Lord knows he didn't whine like this when groups like the "Economic  Freedom Alliance" bought ads criticizing Democratic Congressmen from Missouri, when Americans for a Better America ran ads whacking Sarah Steelman, when Americans for Prosperity says nasty things about evil libruls, etc., etc.

Blunt's professed outrage on this subject also completely ignores the fact that the LCV is running nearly identical ads against Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), John Boehner (R-OH), Denny Rehberg (R-MT), Blaine Luetkemeyer and Jason Altmire (D-PA). Luetkemeyer doesn't have an opponent at this point, there's little chance that Boehner or Rehberg have anything to worry about in 2010, and Altmire is a Democrat... so this is hardly a let's-pick-on-poor-Roy-Blunt situation.

I have no idea why the LCV chose to run the ads where they did, but it seems reasonable that the League of Conservation Voters cares about legislation which could impact the environment.

Blunt should stick to pretending he has no idea how he got all that oil and lobbyist money.