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"No one knows from whence it came," the ad began. "Legend goes that it began innocently enough. Local politics. The warm bask of attention. The occasional flicker of a television light. It was a heady time. But then it grew. It wanted more." Suddenly, a younger Barbara Boxer appears. But soon the real images are transformed into a grotesque blimp that floats over the Golden Gate Bridge, Victorian homes in San Francisco, Napa Valley vineyards and Southern California palm trees.
As the Democratic senator floats over the California landscape — the spot depicts Boxer's face as a giant blimp that never stops talking — she's blamed for job-killing taxes, astronomical unemployment, a soaring national debt and her "liberal, partisan elitist ways." Her voice is compared to the sound of a fingernail being dragged across a blackboard.
The ad's last scene shows a blimp crashing into the ocean. Convention delegates laughed and cheered.
Then, suddenly, there was light, at least in the center of the room, where Fiorina suddenly appeared like an angel in a red dress.
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