Take Me To Post Comment Form Surely, you jest! I am really tired of political ads that tell half-truths to make the other side look liberal, callously conservative, or otherwise incompetent. And as I watch these ads (because there is no way to avoid them other than refusing to watch TV) I notice the worst offenders are the PACs, not the candidates themselves.

As one example, The Barrow Bailout Bills Bye Bye ad sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform cites two votes by Barrow as reasons to get rid of him. I think they believe you will not notice both bills were passed during the Bush administration and received bipartisan support. As a matter of fact, both Senators from Georgia voted for the housing reform bill (HR 3221) in April 2008 (Senate vote 96), three months before Barrow's vote cited in the ad. I do not believe anyone would label either of our Senators as "liberal" or "progressive" or spendthrifts.

I could cite the Democratic PAC supporting Barrow for the same transgressions, including Anderson's vote on the hospital bed tax - which was a very necessary one to address Medicare shortfalls (but I got tired of researching). Not all tax increases are evil - particularly those which address specific needs affecting the health and safety of the general public.

I don't even want to begin getting into the mud being slung by the Presidential PACs. I would hope (a deluded one, I know) that voters would educate themselves on a candidate's record without relying on political ads which fall a hairsbreadth within being outright lies and then vote their consciences.