Mo-Sen Video: An Ad Sen Claire McCaskill Won’t Run in 2012

Senator Claire McCaskill is just a big HYPOCRITE. And, she won’t be running THIS ad either.

More than six years ago, Claire McCaskill was embroiled in another fight over the political use of airplanes — except in that case, she was raising the issue against her opponent.

During the crescendo of her primary challenge to Gov. Bob Holden in July 2004, then-state auditor McCaskill ran an ad showing an airplane circling around the outline of Missouri, slamming the governor for “taking over 300 taxpayer funded trips on the state airplane.”

According to the Associated Press, McCaskill pointed to news accounts that reported Holden flying to events like the NCAA women’s basketball tournament in St. Louis and to a public speaking specialist in Kansas City as evidence as the “kind of things that make taxpayers raise their eyebrows.”

“I don’t believe you would see Gov. McCaskill getting on a plane and heading to ball games saying that’s official state business,” said McCaskill spokesman Glenn Campbell at the time.  (McCaskill went on to upend Holden in the primary, but lose to Gov. Matt Blunt in the general election.)

McCaskill revealed Monday she owed $287,273 in back taxes for her private plane, just days after POLITICO uncovered that the first-term Democrat billed taxpayers for a political trip.

I say put a fork in McCaskill – She’s Done.