Santorum ad: Romney whips out his assault rifle and...wait, this was a Twilight Zone episode, right?

I like the following Rick Santorum ad because it's silly, bizarre and Onionesque. Think about it; it shows a Mitt Romney double with an assault rifle, shooting at Santorum...with mud (as in mud slinging). Just the idea of portraying an armed opponent, shooting at the other, should have been enough for someone in the room to say, "are you crazy."

But this is what passes for the Republican Party these days.



As far as Santorum's social agenda, Paul Krugman wrote this:

From an excellent article published last weekend, that the regions of America most hooked on Mr. Santorum’s narcotic — the regions in which government programs account for the largest share of personal income — are precisely the regions electing those severe conservatives. Wasn’t Red America supposed to be the land of traditional values, where people don’t eat Thai food and don’t rely on handouts?