RedState Bans Blunt, Jeopardizing Senate Race Endorsement

The editors at RedState may have gotten a little ahead of themselves in supporting Roy Blunt's bid for the U.S. Senate.

The popular conservative website endorsed Blunt in August despite their "passionate disagreements," particularly on budgetary and earmark issues.  It was a curious endorsement, coming a full year before the 2010 primary and ignoring Blunt's more ideologically compatible competitors.  And now, it appears that the site has actually banned Blunt from participating in any future website activities because of his unapologetic questions about Barack Obama's birth certificate.    From a Friday post by Erick Erickson, managing editor for the site:

Today I want to reaffirm and make it more definitive. If you think 9/11 was an inside job or you really want to debate whether or not Barack Obama is an American citizen eligible to be President, RedState is not a place for you.

In July, you may recall, Blunt said questions about Obama's birth certificate were "legitimate," and said he wanted to know "why the president can't produce a birth certificate."  A month later, Blunt actually said it was the press who didn't have "any capacity to talk about that [Obama's birth certificate and citizenship] in a legitimate way," and expressed no regrets about his questions regarding the President's American birth.

There's really no way for RedState to reconcile its new ban with an endorsement of Blunt. 

h/t Media Matters