No Need To Sweat The Website Hypocrisy, Apparently

On Roy Blunt's campaign website, his health care issues page includes the following line:

We must complete the work of ending denial of coverage due to a pre-existing condition. 

This obviously sounds great, but when Blunt and the House GOP put together their health care plan this year, they refused prevent insurance providers from barring clients based on pre-existing conditions. 

The Blunt campaign doesn't seem to be bothered at all by hypocritical elements on their website.  They still have a countdown clock of days Robin Carnahan has allegedly 'hid' from a head-to-head issues forum with Blunt, even though Blunt has steadfastly refused similar invitations from primary opponent Chuck Purgason and a recent poll showed that 47% of GOP voters are still undecided or supporting Purgason in their primary.

And for all of the bluster we heard earlier this week about how vapid the Blunt team finds the Carnahan website, the issues section on Blunt's website is actually less comprehensive than either Carnahan's or Purgason's. (The Blunt campaign also falsely stated in a fundraising email last week that "Carnahan's campaign Website doesn't even have an 'issues' section.")

Apart from the hypocritical health care page on Blunt's site, there are just four other pages. One "issues" page is just about why he thinks there ought to be more Republicans in the Senate. Another says "he is supporting the men and women who stand guard for our freedom every day," and begins with the amusing line, "Roy loves the United States of America because he loves freedom."  His "energy independence" page is little more than an explanation (complete with faulty cost estimates) of why he voted against the Democratic energy bill earlier this year. And his "jobs and economy page" is simply a call for balanced budgets, with no explanation for why he helped drive up deficit spending when he was helping run the show, or how he hopes to balance the budget now.

In contrast, Purgason's "Contract with Missouri and Challenge to Other Candidates" has considerably more detail, and Carnahan's allegedly non-existent Issues section is notably more comprehensive than Blunt's.