Ben Quayle: Competing to represent Arizona's 3rd congressional district. Figured that enough people would have forgotten his blithering not-Jack-Kennedy father to make his unfortunate genetics a non-issue, yet had the paterfamilias announce his candidacy on Fox News' "America Live" (a factless daytime chat show hosted by Greta Van Susteren's understudy) because he is a sniveling and fearful child. Tried to compensate for this transparent cowardice with the ad above attacking Barack Obama-who is not one of his nine Republicans opponents in the upcoming GOP primary-as the "worst president in history," and delivered his lines as though he were trying to convince an underage hooker to run away with him [...]

David Weigel calls this ad for Arizona congressional candidate Ben Quayle-yes, spawn of Dan-"all the best parts of Alabama viral videos boiled down and utilized by the handsome son of a vice president." Ben, 33, is also an important object lesson for the kids in these Internet-crazy days: Anything you put on the web-even if you were posting "under the pseudonym 'Brock Landers,' a reference to a porn star in the movie 'Boogie Nights,'"- will eventually come back to bite you in the ass.