Somehow we started from here…
Jim Traficant: “I’m Running For Congress”
[snip]
Well, there’s a bumper sticker for you.
Jim Traficant
Fighting for America’s Families, so long as it doesn’t violate the terms of my parole.
(That’s… sort of based on a direct quote.)
…and then we added this to the mix…
This May Be the Greatest Campaign Web Video of All Time
[snip]
It combines what sounds like the soundtrack to “The Exorcist,” a narrator who sounds like he’s imitating Morgan Freeman with the stratospheric dudgeon of Keith Olbermann’s “Special Comments,” and then the grand finale: evil, menacing, vaguely cybernetic sheep with glowing red eyes. Two minutes and thirty seconds into the video, you will be screaming, “What the hell is that?!?” and reaching for any available firearms.
…and we somehow ended up here.
(Original here)
(You can blame SuzyRice.com for that one.)
Really: it all made perfect sense at the time.
Which leads me to a mental image of Carly Fiorina standing next to a bunny boiling in a pot a la “Fatal Attraction.” Did she hire the Edwards “we’ll sink the ship once we get a lifeboat” campaign staff, and what do they know we don’t?