How the election tactics are beginning to annoy me

Dear James, Daniel and Emily

So the electoral campaign is in full swing. Which means we are being deluged with campaign ad after campaign ad. And they are really beginning to annoy me, not because I don't want to watch electoral ads, but because the Republican ones are getting so one tracked and almost blatantly wrong minded.

Here is my generic Republican campaign Ad circa August 2008:
"The Democratic candidate (Obama, Mark Udall etc.) wants to raise taxes, and she/he is also behind the rise in gas taxes. So if you elect him/her you will be paying more taxes and the price of gas will increase (cats and dogs will start living together, the oceans will dry up, there will be a plague of locusts upon the land... sorry I may have stretched things a little but that is the type of imagery we are bombarded with)."

This is pretty much all they have, almost sad really if it wasn't so important.

Here is my response:
1. Taxes: in the 8 years our country has gone from a national budget surplus to a record deficit. The surplus was left to us a legacy of 8 years of a Democrat in the White House. And yet things are supposed to magically get better with a Republican whose approach to economics is a carbon copy of the current Republican administrations. Which means more deficits and tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It's a classic example of political sleight of hand.

2. Gas Prices: This country needs a Ross Perot like lecture on Economics 101 when it comes to gas prices:
"You have a finite resource, oil, there is only so much of it on this planet (and what we might get from ransacking the North American environment isn't much more than a relative drop in the bucket). And you have an ever increasing demand as developing countries like China and India, and the rest of the Third World use more and more oil and petroleum based products. That is classic Supply and Demand. And when you look at a classic supply and demand curve, if demand increases while supply is static, prices increase. There is no way to change this (short of starting major wars all across the world, destroying the economies of the developing countries so they can't use more oil), it's the closest thing you can find to a hard and fast iron clad economic law. So gasoline prices will increase until demand decreases, period."

This is what happens when you have campaign managers who can't actually say something positive about their candidate, and count on the idiocy of the general populace. I really detest negative, attack ads. It is one of the reasons I left the Republican Party, the ads they ran against Clinton in 1992. I can only hope that the debates will give Obama a chance to break this down and address these ludicrous assertions about his supposed policies.