Suddenly, Mehlman doesn’t like name calling

“We gotta get ourselves beyond this point where when we disagree about politics, we call the other guy names.”

Do as I say now: Mehlman seems to have undergone a dramatic change of heart. Last year, as head of the Bush-Cheney campaign, he couldn’t seem to get through a sentence that included Sen. John Kerry’s name without calling the Democratic presidential candidate a flip flopper.