let s get right back to jack for the cafferty file. the question this hour is how much do attack ads, political attack ads damage our faith in our leaders? conor in chicago writes, this is nothing new in american politics. andrew jackson s opponents called his mother a horse in a popular nupt of the time. she, of course, wasn t, but people ate it up then just as they do now. if the method is tried and true, do you really fault the politicians. dan in virginia writes the sad thing is in general attack ads work. a lot of elections are determined by who can scare the most voters. maybe then we would stop voting in the two sets of idiots under the short-term memory induced