The headline today read:

Sean Hannity should write a thesis about his hypocrisy

On his radio program, Fox News' Sean Hannity claimed that The Washington Post is trying to "smear, besmirch, [and] demonize" Virginia gubernatorial candidate Robert McDonnell (R) by going through "the great effort to dig up a graduate school thesis that he wrote," adding that a thesis "by design is supposed to be provocative" and that McDonnell wrote his "20 years ago." But during the 2008 presidential campaign, Hannity aggressively attacked Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton for college theses they wrote more than 20 years ago. mediamatters.org to READ MORE and see video

That is exactly the sort of name-calling and rhetoric I have been writing against when it comes from the right. We don't need it from the left either. Nastiness is nastiness and knows no party affiliation. It is simply immaturity and bad manners.  We really don't need to be calling people "hypocrites" or digging up ancient "dirt" on them if our own arguments are strong enough.

Turn about is almost never fair play.

If it wasn't fair play the first time, it is not fair play the next time.

Just because it was done to you, does not mean it should be done to the person or group that did it to you.

Civility will never return to America as long as we keep trying to get even and treat people the way we have been treated, Someone has to stop it.

YES! There were low blows, misrepresentations, and outright lies against Obama. And yes, the pastor card was very low (I have often said that Pastor Wright never said anything about God judging America that I haven't been hearing white fundamentalist preachers saying for decades).

However, that is no justification for Democrats using the same tactics on a Republican.

Maybe Sean Hannity is not the guy to point this out, but I guess it can come from anywhere.

What I would prefer is a body politic where everyone spoke up for the other side. Then all would have far more credibility. When crying "foul" for oneself and ones friends, one is always suspect and comes across as self-serving.

That being said, lay off the McDonnell kid (That is what he was when he wrote it and he needed to explore weird ideas) and discuss what he says he believes today. Otherwise, you

risk losing my mother's very reliable Democratic vote (and a lot of others).

I'd say, let the most mature people be the first to stop and we will sit back and wait and see who that might be.

I hope it is whatever side I am on that always takes the high road.