Presidential candidate Fred Thompson has clearly decided it is "Do unto others -- in spades -- after they have done unto you."

Fred Thompson has a folksy, good old boy persona on the stump, but it may not last much longer.

When I asked him if he is an 11th Commandment man — Never speak ill of a fellow Republican — he responded, “I am more of a 12th Commandment man: Don’t speak ill of them until they speak ill of me. And then really speak ill of them.”

Now that seems reasonable, on its face. however, I hope that is tempered with the realization that too harsh an attack on his GOP rivals could damage the eventual nominee fatally, exposing weaknesses that will resonate with the electorate and give an opening to the eventual Democrat nominee.

After all, there was this Democrat named Al Gore in 1988 -- he raised challenged Michael Dukakis on a furlough program for state inmates and a prisoner named Willie Horton.

And the rest is history.

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