“It probably seemed innocuous at the time. An invitation comes for a black-tie party to launch the remodeled version of the grocery store where the yuppies and the swells get their food in the swanky Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.

“But Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) isn’t just any Capitol Hill fixture. He’s a candidate for the Senate, and partying with the fancy folk — with cameras rolling — gives his opponents a chance to show how far removed Blunt’s weekday world is from the Food4Less in Joplin, Mo.”