We see a lot of those supposedly-funny animated shorts that are intended to incite JibJab-like viral marketing traffic, create buzz, generate sign-ups to a campaign website. Most of them are awful. Finally, however, here’s one of those political cart…

This is a funny video.

Tenuous connections, perhaps. Oh, except that there’s evidence that during (before? I don’t remember) the California energy crisis, Schwarzenegger was meeting with Enron’s Ken Lay, a major culprit in the fleecing of Californians.

Tenuous connections, perhaps. Except that Schwarzenegger went to Ohio a little more than a year ago, the weekend before the election and helped deliver the state to George Bush.

Tenuous connections, perhaps. Except that Schwarzenegger policies look eerily similar to Bush policies. Bush wanted to privatize social security. Schwarzenegger wanted to privatize public employee pensions.

Bush holds invite only “town hall” meetings. Schwarzenegger holds invite only “town hall” meetings.

Bush has led us into massive debt by cutting taxes in times of fiscal and security crises. Schwarzenegger has led us into massive debt by reducing the vehicle license fee in times of fiscal crises.

Bush has proposed a federal Constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage, pandering to the religious right. Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would legalize gay marriage, pandering to the religious right.

Bush opposes a woman’s right to choose. The allegedly pro-choice Schwarzenegger supports Prop. 73, which would limit choice in California.

Maybe Schwarzenegger has tenuous connections to Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and Bill O’Rielly (except that he and O’Rielly do like harrassing women), but he is indelibly linked to the Bush administration.

Big ups to our peeps over at Independent Sources for spotting this doozy of [...]