Leave The Kids Alone

Jim Geraghty has an excellent post up over at CampaignSpot about attacking the children of politicians.

If they are liberal, do not do it.
If they are conservative, do not do it.

Period.

Or as Mr. Geraghty points it...

But even if you think Barack Obama or George W. Bush or Bill Clinton or Sarah Palin are the biggest doofuses to walk the face of the earth, you're not supposed to take it out on their kids. Because they're kids. If you really can't instinctively grasp why it's wrong for a grown man to make a child a butt of jokes, I don't know whether it can be explained to you.