Are you tired of the mudslinging that you hear from the McCain and Obama camps?
Get used to it!
It’s been around for years and has played a part in the party politics that helped shaped our nation.
Thomas Jefferson was attacked by ministers who accused him of being an “infidel” and an “unbeliever.”
A Federalist cartoon depicted him as a drunken anarchist, and the president of Yale warned that if Jefferson came to power, “we may see our wives and daughters the victims of legal prostitution.”
A Connecticut newspaper warned that his election would mean “murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced” – though the paper (now the Hartford Courant) did apologize some years later.
John Adams, the sitting president in 1800, also got hit with his share of slung mud.
James Callender, a journalist in league with Jefferson, told the country that Adams was a rageful, lying, warmongering fellow, a “repulsive pedant” and “gross hypocrite” who behaved neither like a man nor like a woman but instead possessed a “hideous hermaphroditical character.”
There was also a nasty rumor that Adams had sent his veep to Europe to bring back four mistresses, two for each of them.

It would seem that what the Connecticut newspaper predicted actually came true.
It just took 200 years for us to get there!