Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is running for president. This will be her second bid for office — in 2010, she tried and failed to win a Senate seat in California. And in the process, she released one of the most blissfully bad campaign ads in recent memory.
Watch it if you haven't. Watch it again if you have. It's that good. And bad.
The gist of the video is that Fiorina's primary opponent Tom Campbell (whom she eventually crushed by nearly 35 percentage points) is a "fiscal conservative in name only" — a wolf in sheep's clothing, if you will. But he's not actually a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's a glowing-eyed "demon sheep," as Rachel Slajda perfectly dubbed it.
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The demon sheep shows up around the 2:25 mark. But really, watch the whole thing. It's great.
Fiorina went on to lose the general election to Democrat Barbara Boxer.
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