Way back when anarchists vandalized the state Republican headquarters in 2004, then-state GOP legal counsel & chief of staff William W. “Bill” Peaslee really took those angry youngsters to task:

“With all the constructive things that people can do to advocate their point of view in a democracy, this is how they chose to express themselves?” Peaslee said outside of his damaged office early Saturday.

Four years later, Peaslee chose to “express himself” by forming the Committee for Truth in Politics, a 501(c)(4) non-profit “advocating honesty in government”(actual quote, no sarcasm). He then “constructively” blew $1.2 million on these anti-Obama attack ads:

The second ad was immediately debunked, with FactCheck.org calling it “absurdly wrong.” While we’re meandering down the absurdly wrong path, it’s worth mentioning that Peaslee decided his little Committee wasn’t going to file any federal paperwork, EVER. Not with the IRS. Not with the FEC. In fact, his counsel James Bopp pre-emptively sued the FEC, arguing “that what the group spends on ads is none of the government’s, or the public’s, business.”

More from Bopp: “We believe that the U.S. Constitution protects them from having to file that report. The problem is having to file a report at all. To be regulated at all. To be accountable to the government at all.”

WOW DUDE. Take a second and let that one soak in. Because it didn’t stop there: the Committee for Truth in Politics filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of Citizens United…as in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, better known colloquially as “that dumbfuck BULLshit allowing free-speakin’ corporations to spend unlimited political $$$.” You know, the ruling even Obama dissed during his State of the Union.

Here’s the twist, the dot no one fucking connected. Bev appointed Peaslee’s Republican ass to the State Board of Elections last summer. There he is, on the far right, chillin’!

Can you even imagine the irony??! Here you have Peaslee, knowing full well he’s sitting on an absolute pile of shit, and he’s got the stones to question Easley about unreported campaign flights? Incredible.

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You should check out the Committee’s new attack ad, it’s hilarious.