Rick Scott’s new campaign mailer is blasting his Republican primary opponent for governor, Bill McCollum, as being in the pocket of the pro-choice group Planned Parenthood.. . .Oh, this, too: In his last year in Congress, 1999, McCollum received a 0 percent rating from Planned Parenthood and a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee. (We should note that when McCollum ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004, the National Right to Life Committee endorsed Mel Martinez over McCollum, because McCollum said he supported an expansion of embryonic stem cell research. But that doesn’t have anything to do with Scott’s claim in this case).

It appears to us that the Scott campaign is trying very hard to link McCollum and Planned Parenthood in an attempt to attack McCollum’s pro-life credentials. They succeeded by finding a Washington law firm that at one point lobbied for Planned Parenthood and at another point gave $2,000 to McCollum.

But there’s no evidence — scratch that. We don’t think any logical person would conclude that Arnold & Porter’s contributions to McCollum and its future business with Planned Parenthood have anything to do with the other.

The Truth-O-Meter is hot under the collar about this one. We say Pants on Fire!