Mari Ness - Now, this is a political twist many of us would be eager to download:

Something you really have to see for yourself.. (Mostly worksafe unless you work at a particularly prudish location.)

(And yes, yes. I know about the music. Give it a moment. Really. Trust me.)

Disclaimer: The above link should not be taken as any endorsement by this blog for the Ron Paul campaign, and is presented purely for the purposes of keeping my politically minded readers informed, and was most certainly not listed here in any attempt to appeal to prurient readers, or to suggest that this blog endorses political campaigns of this nature. Public service. Really. Just a public service.


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But I have to admit that, bodices aside, the very existence of an ad like this intrigues me for multiple reasons. Not that using sex to sell politics (or haunt an opponent) is a particularly new thing, and certainly eager volunteers have created political advertisements at their own expense well before this -- from quick signs to fairly sophisticated television ads. But the internet has enhanced the ability of amateurs to create and disseminate ads of this nature. I can't predict the effect, but I can say that something like this is considerably more memorable than most of the utterly idiotic ads that we will get bombed with next year over our television screens -- hastening, I think, the move of political discussion away from television and onto the computer, with all of the resulting implications.