First of all, to be sued for libel and slander, the attack ad has to be balse. As for being biased during election time, people have the right to be biased if they want to be--no one has the right to force someone to support this or that candidate, nor to tell me that I can spend as much as I want on this, that or the other project--but only so much on campaign ads.
The problem being that the Swift Boat Veterans were correct in their allegations.Though they were eventually discredited, and rightfully so
As for attack ads themselves, I'm not opposed to them. When we vote for a president, we are hiring someone to serve us in one of the most important offices in the country. If I'm hiring someone for an important job, and you know a good reason not to hire this guy, I wanna know.
Moreover, the idea that politics are 'meaner' is not the case either. Attacks have always been part of a campaign, and one of the more common maneuvers has been to claim that your opponent suffers syphilis-induced dementia.
