Which political party is mean-spirited?

Due to their paucity of valid arguments, libs often resort to turning conservatives into a caricature of a mean bogeyman. However, the evidence points another direction. Hugh Hewitt took a look at a couple recent comments by Democrat leadership to illustrate the point.

On Friday Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (after called Bush a loser) said this to school children regarding the Bush judicial nominees:

"I think they're bad people. [California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown] wants to take us back to Civil War days."

Okay, so he is saying an African-American judge (Janice Brown) who grew up in the Jim Crow South wants to take us back to Civil War days. Sure, now you're making sense.

The funny part is that his buddy, Senator Chuck Schumer the next day made the Democrats weekly radio address and urged the president to rein in the harsh language some have used in the filibuster fight.

Oddly, the meanest thing the Republicans have done in the filibuster fight has been to repeat comments made by Dems. Some mean things include noticing Robert Byrd's Hitler comments, or worse yet compiling quotes from Dems about filibusters from when they were in the majority.

Separately, if Harry Reid believes Bush is such a loser, what does he think of Al Gore and John Kerry who actually lost to this "loser?"