Rick Perry wishes Mitt Romney a Happy Columbus Day by unveiling this ad, which ties Romneycare to Obamacare so explicitly that for a split second, Obama looks in the mirror and sees Romney. It’s October; we’re already getting the psychological horror-film theme to our campaign ads.

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The ad also features a lot of a Romney exchange with Tim Russert, and does an effective job of visualizing a point that Perry tried to make in the debates, a sentence about “doing the same for everyone in the country,” disappearing from the paperback version of Romney’s book.