Negative political ads

To anyone running for public office:

The negative ads you run have gotten so outrageous that they are no longer believable. You take the smallest issues out of context that are in almost always questionably open to debate and you make them sound like the severest of transgressions. I have finally reached the point where I have so little confidence that any of the information in negative political ads is accurate that I just don't believe them anymore. In fact, in most cases the ads, at least for me, backfire. When I see a negative political ad, it reflects poorly on the candidate that paid for the ad.

You want to convince we you are the right person for the job? Then focus on you. Because when you use negative political ads, it sounds like you are asking me to choose between the lesser of two evils. In other words, I assume you are just as bad as the other candidate. And who is worst? The candidate that voted for a tax hike affecting a tiny number of people or their opponent that takes that out of context and exaggerates it to the point where it appears that the only thing the target candidates cares about is raising taxes on everyone?

I wish candidates simply filled out a form that explains their experience, education, etc., and reasons for wanting to run for office. Then we could have some televised debates. I'm becoming a bigger and bigger fan of publicly political campaigns where the candidate with the most money doesn't have the advantage.

And we wonder why so few people vote?