Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, R, is not allowing Rand Paul and Ted Cruz to have all the fun this week. Today Huckabee’s not-quite-a-presidential-campaign organization sent supporters a new 47-second ad comparing Islamic terrorism to a rattlesnake. In the ad, Huckabee shares lessons from his youth of how to deal with rattlers:

The ad is far less subtle but still just slightly reminiscent of one from Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election, which talked about the Soviet Union as a dangerous bear in the woods:

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