Dirty tactics in the presidential race

On the Colorado state level, the sole democratic elected representative from El Paso County, Michael Merrifield, has been the target of one of the most nasty, slanderous, character assasination attacks that I ever have ever seen. The state Republican party has sent out mailings depicting Merrifield as standing behind prison bars when in fact he has never broken any laws or even been charged with any instance of wrong doing - certainly he has never been sentenced to jail. The whole thing is based on the fact that some realtor donated Merrifield the use of a small cottage (about 500sq feet) which is situated on an alley, back from the main street, for use as a neighborhood outreach center for Merrifield's constituents. Merrifield neglected to note this down among his list of official campaign contributers (value roughly a whopping $145.00/mo). This oversight was corrected by Merrifield within a month of his having made the minor book-keeping error. This hasn't stopped the Republican party from sending out the mass mailings depicting Merrifield standing behind prison bars. "We didn't know he would correct the book-keeping error," whined one Republican in the party's main headquarters in Denver. "The mailings had already gone out and you can't stop the US Postal Service."

Yeah, neither rain nor snow nor dark of night will stop the Republican Party from stooping as low as a snake's belly and further disgracing itself in the eyes of the world.