It's a mad ad world

It's only January but already 2010 is looking like a vintage year for mad, bad American political attack ads.

Unlike Britain, pretty much anything goes in US political advertising, a tradition that has produced some great ads but mainly produces nasty, cheap negative attacks along the lines of: "Senator Blah voted to increases taxes on food. America's children eat food. Senator Blah hates America's children. Senator Blah - bad for America."

But nothing, frankly, can prepare the mind for this ad from the Carly Fiorina campaign. Fiorina is running in California's Republican senate seat primary against one guy named Tom Campbell:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/feb/03/us-political-ads