Things are never as simple as advertising and soundbites try to make them. Governing is hard work and good government requires a genuine desire to serve and improve your community. I have come to be leery of people who's answer is always cutting taxes because sometimes circumstances do not allow that course. I think it is always good policy to have the lowest possible tax rates but the critical functions of government must be funded and going in debt should be the last option. You also have to look at the real numbers instead of trusting someone's statistics. If your tax bill is one dollar and is rises to two, you have a 100% tax increase. In real terms you lose a cup of coffee a year.
In the end what is in a person's heart should be more important than how many catchy slogans they can pay someone to write. But, unfortunately, our electoral process these days has that exactly backwards. So we elect weak people who are controlled by one group or the other and the business of governing continues to suffer. And in many cases we get races where neither candidate deserves our vote and we hold our nose and try to pick the lessor of two evils. In utopia a third party or independent would become a viable option, but history shows that is not very realistic.