Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Campaign Ad Shows Allen West Punching Women In The Face

I hate these kinds of ads but what are we going to do about it. The campaign planners use these because they work. These kinds of ads have been around for decades on TV and centuries in other places. You probably would have seen something like this in the campaigns of people like John Adams and Abraham Lincoln. Does not mean that John Adams or Abraham Lincoln actually approved these ads.

Founding Fathers' dirty campaign - CNN

"Things got ugly fast. Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a 'hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.'" from the above linked cnn article.