Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has a new Web ad against his likely Democratic opponent Charlie Melancon, attacking the Dem for voting for government-run health care. The fun part here is that Melancon is a Blue Dog who voted against the current health care bill in the committee:
Vitter’s ad uses as its citations two votes by Melancon, against amendments offered by Republican House members that would have presumably limited government health care in some fashion or another, using this as a vote in favor of government health care.
“It’s odd that David Vitter put out an ad attacking Charlie for voting for government-run health care,” Louisiana Dem spokesman Kevin Franck told TPM, “when I get a lot of calls complaining that Charlie voted against government-run health care.”
Franck also put out a press release with a rather suggestive line: “Maybe David Vitter has been pampered so much by the company of those who are paid to agree with him, that he can’t tell the difference between the truth and a lie.” Franck had no comment when asked whether he was endorsing certain rumors.
