There is no excuse for Mitt Romney’s campaign to run an ad for the intended purpose of deceiving the public. Since when is that okay? It’s not, and if Obama’s campaign does the same thing, he, too, should be called on to pull it. One can only assume that Romney would govern the say way, telling people whatever works for Mitt Romney. That conduct is habitual with Romney.

A difference of opinion on issues is one thing, but a knowing lie is unacceptable. Where would it end? Our country is suffering enough due to our unwillingness to regulate how we finance our political campaigns. 94% of the candidates who spend the most money in their campaign wins his or her election. So what’s next, the winner goes to the candidate who lies the best? Absolutely not. Mitt Romney has a responsibility to the public to remove his deceptive, prevaricating ad, and if he was any kind of a man at all he’d remove it on ethical grounds, but apparently that’s asking too much of Mitt Romney.

Writing it off as ‘it comes with the territory’ has to stop, because frankly I’m not aware of Obama having done the same thing in 2008 against John McCain. But I do recall George W. Bush running those Swiftboat ads, discrediting John Kerry for honorably serving our nation when Bush avoided serving in Vietnam thanks to his dad’s connections.

I also recall the ad Saxby Chambliss ran against Max Cleland discrediting his service to our country and linking him to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein during a 2002 Senate campaign, and Max Cleland sacrifice both of his legs and one arm in that service to his country. There were even Republicans, John McCain and Chuck Hagel, Cleland’s fellow servicemen who also served in Vietnam, who called on Chambliss to stop the ads. The smear campaigns against both Kerry and Cleland worked. They both lost their elections to two men who didn’t serve in Vietnam. Chambliss avoided service using 3 deferments.

How can a democracy function properly if the people are choosing their leaders based on lies? How can we make good choices for the country if we don’t know the truth about the candidates running for office? Since the GOP seems unable to monitor themselves then perhaps the government needs to create a bi-partisan panel that follows certain criteria to ascertain whether or not political ads are true or not. If not, the candidate must remove the ad by law. This demonstrate why there really is a need for government.

I agree, it is hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle. Of course this is just a repeat of the last 30 years of elections of each side taking things out of context and running ads on it. More of the same until we get publiclcy financed elections.