Think the 2008 Election is the Height of Mudslinging?

Read today's Washington Post Column and you might think differently. In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson was attacked by ministers who accused him of being an "infidel" and an "unbeliever." A Federalist cartoon depicted him as a drunken anarchist, and the president of Yale warned that if Jefferson came to power, "we may see our wives and daughters the victims of legal prostitution." Think that is bad, wait to you hear what they said about John Adams!