Mitt Romney’s campaign wasted little time in capitalizing on Joe Biden’s maniacal performance in last Thursday’s vice presidential debate, creating a new television ad that starkly contrasts Paul Ryan’s calm and confident position on taxes with Biden’s Jokeresque performance. Cutting between an earnest and determined looking Ryan, and a smirking, giggling Biden, the ad quotes Ryan from the debate:

Ryan is dead right. Our economy is barely limping along. Since the economy stopped losing jobs in October 2010, we have been averaging 150,000 jobs created per month. But over the last six months, job growth has slowed to just 106,000 jobs a month. Economic growth has slowed to just 1.3 percent. And a big reason why is the $500 billion tax hike that is scheduled to hit Americans starting January 1st. And that is where Biden’s laugh starts to looks so scary.