Tea Party activist David Lewis has announced he will challenge pro-life Speaker John Boehner next year in the Republican primary for his Ohio congressional seat. Lewis says he is running because of one issue — pro-life — yet he misstates and misrepresent’s Boehner’s pro-life record on abortion.

Boehner is “an establishment Republican,” Lewis told The Enquirer newspaper, adding, “He doesn’t believe in the Tea Party. He doesn’t really believe in the pro-life issues.”

Boehner’s office has not commented on Lewis’ candidacy but the local Republican Party chairman, Dave Kern, told the Cincinnati newspaper, “I have no issue on educating the public on the wrongs of abortion. But I think the young man is mistaken to try to do damage to a committed soldier in this battle. His efforts could be spent more productively in other directions, and that’s certainly what I would advise.”

Mistaken is an apt word to describe Lewis’ erroneous portrait of Boehner’s record on abortion as both an Ohio congressman and the Speaker of the House.

According to the National Right to Life Committee, in 90 votes Boehner has cast on pro-life issues — ranging from abortion and abortion funding, to de-funding Planned Parenthood, to keep abortion out of Obamacare, and on bioethics issues — Boehner has never cast a single pro-abortion vote.

NRLC was so impressed with Boehner’s record that, in June 2010, it gave him an award for his part in leading the opposition in Congress to the pro-abortion health care bill President Barack Obama signed into law. Boehner made opposition to the massive abortion funding it contained a centerpiece of his opposition to it...