Smith in her 2010 ad.

Last time we heard from Missy Reilly Smith, the hardcore anti-abortion activist was forcing local television stations to run horribly graphic campaign advertisements during her 2010 Congressional campaign against Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Well, Mike DeBonis reports that Smith is getting back in the campaign mood, and this time she’s gunning not for Norton’s seat, but the one held by Joe Biden. Yes, Smith is running for vice president, joining a ticket led by Randall Terry, a nationally known activist who’s a perfect ideological match for Smith. You might recall that earlier this year, Smith announced he was running as a Democrat so that he could compete in primary elections with President Obama and run commercials as graphic as Smith’s on local television stations during the Super Bowl. (Federal Election Commission rules state that no broadcaster may refuse to run a candidate’s advertisement within 45 days of a primary or general election.) Apparently this also means that Smith is jumping ship from the Republican Party, which, despite her professed affiliation two years ago, publicly disowned her campaign.

It only makes sense that with Terry continuing his presidential bid (link contains gruesome commercials that are definitely not safe for work), he would team up with Smith. Terry’s organization inspired and largely funded Smith’s 2010 run, and when the pair are in the room together, it’s a kind of mutual admiration society, DeBonis writes:

In the news release announcing Smith as Terry’s VP pick, the two share their mutual admiration.

Smith, Terry says, is “articulate, unflinching, and beautiful” and a “true threat to the child killers and pandering politicians.” Smith calls Terry “the greatest ‘Warrior for Life’ in American history, and a brilliant media strategist.”

Terry has already managed to run his spots in a few states when he was running in Democratic primaries. Considering he has no chance of actually clinching the Democratic Party’s nomination at the convention in September (his one delegate was voided), Terry is now working on obtaining ballot access as an independent. And should he succeed, he’ll be well within federal election law to run another round of 30-second slideshows of bloody and dismembered aborted fetuses.

Only this time, he’ll be joined by D.C.’s own Missy Reilly Smith.