This is all well and good and I'm willing to stipulate that there are no egregious faults in either man (their relatives notwithstanding).  What are we left with then?  I ask this basic question.  If my mother, after a lifetime of hard work, both as parent and employee, were to fall ill and at the same suffer serious financial setbacks, which candidate and which Party would advocate measures to make sure that she did not suffer in her final years?  Actually, my mother had that experience.  What saved her dignity and allowed her to have some happiness in her final years was Social Security, Medicare and, finally, Medicaid for nursing home care.  The Republican Party has fought and vilified those programs, and thus the welfare of my mother, at every opportunity since the 1930s.  Democrats will take care of my mom first and billionaires somewhere down the line.  The reverse is true for the Republicans.  Some people say "Vote the man or woman, not the Party."  Yeah, but the nicest arsonist is still an arsonist.  I'll vote for Tierney because he won't burn down the house that FDR, Kennedy, Bill Clinton and others built. The house may need new windows, but arson isn't the answer.

While reading about "Tisei who benefited from the super-PAC" spending, you should know that, as an Independent voter, I have so far received in the mail just three flyers attacking Tierney, and nineteen -- 19 -- attacking Tisei.