February 16, 2012 02:35 AM UTC

Santorum's Like Glue: Bounces Off Me, Sticks To You

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• by: Colorado Pols

The most unintentionally (?) awesome GOP presidential primary ad yet–Washington Post:

AIRING: On broadcast and cable in Michigan.

KEY IMAGES: A Mitt Romney doppelganger armed with what looks like an assault rifle enters a warehouse and looks around shiftily. When a cardboard cutout of Rick Santorum pops out from behind a pillar, the Romney lookalike opens fire, spraying mud all around the cut out but not hitting the former Pennsylvania senator’s image. The Romney lookalike continues to pace, growing more and more annoyed as he fires in vain at other Santorums that pop out. As the ad closes, the Romney lookalike tries to unjam his gun but it backfires, spitting a dollop of mud on the front of his crisp white shirt…

Santorum’s ad stands out because it’s a rare attempt at humor in what has been an expensive and nasty campaign ad war. His campaign is hoping the goofy image of Romney running around with a mud-filled rifle will stick with voters.

Folks, it’s either mud on Mitt Romney’s shirt in this ad, or Rick Santorum’s people have a better sense of humor than we (or anyone) had heretofore given them credit for.

We’re going to let our readers believe whatever they want to.