Because spending on political advertising for the 2012 election might go up as much as 18 percent from a 2010 base of $2.3 billion. That is a lot of airtime, people! Most of which will be spent on really stupid, visually static, misleading, and grating video. I really hope Jon Huntsman stays in the race long enough for Fred Smith to cut an entire series of videos that reveal that the mild-mannered former governor of Utah and ambassador to China is actually Ghostrider:
Tomorrow from Jon Huntsman Jr. on Vimeo.
Clearly, Huntsman will end the War on Terror by jumping a football field’s-worth of semis:
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