Enough with the pigs, fish, snakes, and lambs... here come the wolves!

It's the new McCain campaign ad, referred to in an update to an earlier post today. Unlike the pigs-and-fish ad (that seems to have become unavailable), the animal imagery here is wolves:



Remember that great old Bush ad with wolves:



Except there, the wolves were terrorists. In this new ad, the wolves are the dreaded opposition researchers.

And now seems like a good time to revisit my favorite old political animal ad, "There's a bear in the woods":



All this animal imagery suggests that politics has descended to a subhuman level. It wasn't supposed to be like this!