If You Walk Down The Middle Of The Road...

...eventually you'll get flattened by a semi truck.  The voters in Arkansas are driving that truck in 2010, and Blanche Lincoln is skipping down the center line, seemingly oblivious.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) may have hoped she'd put the primary behind her, but it will continue to haunt her for weeks to come. Now that she's running full-time in the general election against Rep. John Boozman, Lincoln is once again shoring up her right flank, tiptoeing away from the rhetoric she used to defeat Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. The results are...awkward.

For instance, in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Lincoln tried to dispel the notion that she cast the deciding vote for health care reform, which remains unpopular in Arkansas.

"I wasn't the deciding vote," Lincoln said. "I was among a handful of five Democrats that worked on getting consensus."

There's some truth to that. But where did the Democrat-Gazette get the notion that Lincoln tipped health care into the Democrats' win column? From Blanche Lincoln, who in the below ad said, " I grew up in an Arkansas family where we were taught to solve problems, not through hate and anger, but by coming together and getting something done. That's why I cast the deciding vote to pass health care reform."

No really, that's exactly what her "I'm a good Democrat!" primary ad says.

And less than 4 days after the primary, Blanche Lincoln is already running away as far as possible from her health care reform vote after claiming she was the person that cast the deciding vote. Democrat or not, that's pretty scuzzy.

Not going to be particularly sorry to see her lose in November either.