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Matt Drudge plays up this video as the Republican political ad that “GOP strategists all across Washington, DC” have deemed “too hot.” Or not. The ad, created by Hollywood producer/director David Zucker (“Scary Movie,” “Police Squad!” “Airplane!”) allegedly was created for widespread GOP use in the waning weeks of the campaign season, and is now being rejected by all. We suspect the reason has less to do with its purported hotness than its serious lameness. An atrociously bad Madeleine Albright imitator’s skirt splits while she’s changing a tire for a Middle Eastern dictator. Har! Democrats wish the GOP would’ve been dumb enough to run this:

Open Salon interview.

A struggling Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., went nuclear Wednesday, with an ad that tries to ally challenger Bob Casey with North Korea and China. Ah, the acrid smell of desperation in the weeks before a congressional election! Be prepared for even more of these terror-filled spots in these glorious final days of Campaign 2006, all of which carry a little DNA from the mother of all scare ads: The 1964 Lyndon Johnson “Daisy Girl” ad against Barry Goldwater (bottom ad, below).

From Michael Scherer’s piece today: “The GOP seems to believe that Ford’s appeal to its most reliable voters is working. In recent days, the Republican National Committee has attempted to reverse the troubling polls in Tennessee with a television ad that both attacks Ford’s religious credentials and invokes that old standby of American politics, racial fear.”

This National Republican Senatorial Committee ad against Harold Ford sports an early mention of a Playboy connection that the party hopes will rile Christians against Ford.

Salon’s piece on Rep. Harold Ford Jr.’s senate campaign spotlights his appeal to churchgoers, as in the TV spot below.