[AdamSelene235]

You realize, I hope, that the founders DID NOT campaign nor run ads attacking their opponents.

Pshhaaww. Ok, not ads. Rather they hired scandal mongers to spread vicious rumors about their opponents in the press. Jefferson's smears of Adams spring to mind. Hell, even George Washington was accused of conspiring to sell America out to the British.

You, of course, know these things to be true.

[justshutupandtakeit]

My statements never implied otherwise.

Jefferson helped Freanau, Bache and Callender ply their character assassinations but that was not what I was speaking of. The press back then was far more irresponsible but they were OPENLY partisian not pretending to objectivity as it does today.