Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010

Worst President, Best Ad

Though he doesn't try to spell potato in this campaign ad, the 33-year-old son of former Vice President Dan Quayle does carry on his father's legacy of making questionable assertions. With the gravitas of a prime-time star telling kids to stay off drugs, Ben Quayle locks his baby blues on the camera and says, "Barack Obama is the worst President in history." And that's just the opening. The young Republican vying to represent Arizona's Third Congressional District goes on to promise to "knock the hell out of the place" once he gets to Washington. He has a pretty good shot of getting there; he's the prohibitive favorite to take it to the Beltway crowd in November after overcoming a crowded primary field and allegations that he wrote pseudonymously for a racy website. Here's hoping he's not such a lock that he doesn't have time to make another commercial.