Just About the Greatest Attack Ad of All Time

Nick Gillespie | September 27, 2006

Run, don't walk, to watch the above ad. Details via Jeff Diehl at 10 Zen Monkeys:

"Brad Miller even spent your tax dollars to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to their genitalia."

That's from a TV campaign ad by Vernon Robinson, who's trying to unseat incumbent Democrat Miller for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 13th District of North Carolina. In the process, he's created some of the most amusing campaign messages in recent memory.

Here's another, from the same ad:

"Brad Miller spent your money to study the masturbation habits of old men."

More, oh so much more, here.

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