Letters to the Editor
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Get over it
Politics is not pleasant, unfortunately.
After what Karl Rove and his Swift-Boaters did to John McCain in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, anything that happens in this election, so far, looks tame.
Anyone who has the money and manages to avoid using swear words can make and disseminate a campaign ad. People who support candidates (just read the posts in Salon's War Room) tend to get much more nasty and obnoxious about the candidates they don't support than the candidates do themselves. And they have the right to say whatever they want to say, thank God, in a country that values free speech. If a candidate has endorsed an ad, he/she is required to say so publicly, within the ad. If that public statement is not there, I think we have to "give credit" to the person or organization who paid for the ad and leave it alone.
Get over it. These things happen. Running for office is a contact sport. The candidates all know that. Now the sport includes a bunch of blind referees, the press, who call foul because they can.