The McCain ad also accuses congressional "liberals" of showing badjudgment when they pushed for "risky" sub-prime loans and fought against more regulation.
It's one thing to punish those who willfully commit fraud and other well-defined crimes, quite another to jail or ruin people for badjudgment, mistakes or for taking risks that go wrong.
Among the most spectacular examples of badjudgment: Sequoia Capital 's seeming refusal to distribute any of its 8 million shares of Etoys, the e-tailer that was going to drive Toys "R" Us out of business.