New Ad Portrays Senator Stepping on Child

Look up, kids: According to a new attack ad, Sen. Patty Murray likes to step on children.

That's the suggestion of the conservative American Action Network, which is attacking the Washington Democrat with a spot that portrays her literally stepping on a child.

Watch the spot at left. As Politico's Jonathan Martin reports, the spot, part of a "major ad buy" in Washington, uses Murray's self-proclaimed image as a "mom in tennis shoes" to portray her stepping on a small businessman, a mother, and finally a young boy, who responds with an agonized look.

"You wore your tennis shoes out on our backs," a narrator says in the spot, as a woman in tennis shows is shown stepping on one person after another. "Small businesses. Washington families. And children."

The spot goes on to claim that the senator cost the state jobs and attack her for increasing spending and taxes.

The man behind the ad is Fred Davis, a former adviser to John McCain who answers to the nickname "Hollywood" and who is also responsible for perhaps the most memorable spot of the entire campaign cycle: Carly Fiorina's legendary "demon sheep" spot.

Davis also crafted the "celebrity" spot that cast then-candidate Barack Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world," before asking "but is he ready to lead?"