It’s a well-known fact that politicians don’t use cheap scare tactics. Especially desperate ones.

Which is why Rick Santorum’s new ad comes as a such a shock. It features the small town of Obamaville: a ghost town populated by abandoned playgrounds, crows, and televisions playing constant footage of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Sounds like hell? It is. Consider yourself warned.

In other terrifying political news, 71-year-old cyborg and suspected war criminal Dick Cheney has received a new heart. Doctors swear no favoritism was involved.

God bless America.