MICKEY KAUS: “Republicans are in a position to be mean to Democrats, and there’s suddenly a campaign against meanness. What a happy coincidence! But, like many seemingly clever, intuitive MSM/Dem strategies—’Let’s nominate a Vietnam war hero to run against President Bush!’—this one may prove to be a dud, or worse.”

UPDATE: Reader Jerry Davis emails: “Everything old is new again. ‘Mean-spirited’ was the catch phrase during the Clinton impeachment. Everybody who mentioned witness tampering or perjury was immediately dubbed ‘mean-spirited.'”