I Want to Like Carly Fiorina, But -- What IS This?

I want to like Carly Fiornia.  I really do.

Anyone who can go after the narcisstic, liberal statist California Senator Barbara ("Don't Call Me Ma'am") Boxer with a website called CallMeBarbara.com has my support.

And yet . . . this is the freakiest political attack ad I've ever seen.  In the ad, Carly Fiorina's campaign rips into her GOP primary rival, Tom Campbell.

There are strange adjectives like "piety."  There are sheep.  There is a pedestal.

And then it gets really weird.

As Ace suggests, "If you get bored of it, you have to skip to around 2:20, when the Demon Eyed Sheep makes its appearance."

After seeing this video, I'm beginning to -- (I hate to say it, for fear that I undermine a challenger to Barbara Boxer) -- I'm beginning to question Fiorina's judgment.

What do you think?

Is this appropriate?  Effective?  Over the top?  Way, way over the top?  Or is it just what is necessary to win?  Am I overreacting to the sheep from hell?

Comments

[Peggy McGilligan]

Unfortunately for Carly Fiorina, the woman is hard to like. Fortunately for Barbara Boxer, the only thing Carly's beastly campaign ad rips into is her own credibility. The State of California is bankrupt on more than a few levels.

[Gary]

The message is accurate; the method of delivery, adolescent. Carly is smart enough to defeat Boxer (that's not saying much), She just needs to abandon old school politics and return to a clear and concise message. Meg Whitman who is running for governor is executing a flawless campaign right now. I get 2-3 emailed updates every week as to what she is saying and doing. Fiorina needs to get hold of Whitman's play book and run some of Meg's tactics or she will be another casualty of stupid politics.

What a stupid commercial.

[proof]

I was contacted by someone associated with the Fiorina after I ran some audio clips that may have put the candidate in a less than favorable light with conservatives. I just recently discovered that the bizarre ad in question was hers. My thoughts on the ad from another forum:

Regardless on one's politics, I thought the ad was bad, because it was ineffectual. First of all, it struck me more like a Monty Python skit than political discourse. It's practically unwatchable. The first time I saw it posted online, I couldn't make it all the way to the end, so I didn't even know it was Carly's ad.

Second, it was too long. If her campaign had a clear cut message, they could have made the point without trying to rely on the amateurish "power point" that Tom Campbell is baaaaaad. (See? I'm no professional and in thirty seconds I came up with a more clever punch line!) and maybe evil to boot! (The music made me think: "Darth Vader")

Plus the ad made her kind of a laughing stock, it was so bad. If I was running things there, the people who made that ad would be fired. Unless, of course, the ad was the candidates idea. Then, I'd have to find a new candidate!