Over at CNN, who is generating news as much as reporting it, much ado about negative campaigning. Joey pointed me at this:
Negative campaigning is as old as the Republic. Thomas Jefferson's opponents predicted in their brochures that if he became president, "murder, robbery, rape and incest will be openly taught and practiced."
In the 1828 presidential campaign, Andrew Jackson's opponents accused him of murder, gambling and treason and said his wife was a prostitute.
The accusations against President Jefferson are slanderous, but the President Jackson claims are probably true.
And let's not forgot LBJ suggesting that a vote for Senator Goldwater is a vote for nuclear armageddon:
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