We SHOULD hold ourselves to high standards of civility and respect for others. I do. I also throw up my hands and say that I cannot require others to hold the same standards. I trained my children to my standards. They say my training leaves them vulnerable to the uncivil.

I have not ever seen the left as more civil than the right. The nastiness of the left was one of the reasons I left it it, nearly thirty years ago. It is dismaying to me to see nastiness on the right, when I see it. I confess that I just do not listen to those characterized as nasty. Perhaps since I joined conservatism when Reaganism WAS conservatism, his affable style is what I am always watching for on the right.

The floor of the Senate might be a civil place, but in the media, on the campaign trail, I do not see Senators as exemplars of good political discourse. What am I missing?