Being Mean

Liberals are getting up in arms about the nastiness of the McCain campaign. Sullivan cites some signs as creating a moral equivalence to Bin Laden.

But to be fair, many on the left make the exact same type of hateful comments about McCain-Palin. And certainly, many on the left were calling a Bush a terrorist for a long time while the rest of the left stood by and nodded silently.

If you're against hate speech or mean campaigning, it seems to me you ought to be upset with your side, not the other side. If you're only upset with the other side, you're just acting as a partisan. Which is fine...by the way...but I don't think one ought to try to disguise a partisan attack as an objective anger about mean campaigning.