He also conducted a mean-spirited and dishonest campaign against Ronnie White, Missouri's first black State Supreme Court justice, when Justice White was nominated for a federal judgeship.

I do believe, however, that Mr. Lautenberg should be held accountable for his mean-spirited campaign against Millicent Fenwick.

The Minnesota Republican, with 125 overdrafts, said he was not running because he didn't want to be part of a mean-spirited personal campaign devoid of national issues.

And we had to manage our own emotions in the glare of the public spotlight, through the course of an increasingly mean-spirited and personal campaign.

But it was the politics of personal destruction-visceral, mean-spirited campaigns to ruin the lives of public figures-that I found disheartening and bad for the country.

"This is the type of mean-spirited campaign that Lautenberg runs."

He accused Mr. Lomax of waging "the ugliest, most mean-spirited campaign" that he had seen in politics.

This impression of opennesss and vigor is doing much to shore up Mr. Bush, who was elected in a mean-spirited campaign that did much damage to the winner's public image.

He accused her of an "ugly, mean-spirited campaign" to isolate him from the children.

Then, too, some longtime allies defected after last year's rancorous Senate primary, in which she finished last and was accused of running an unfair and mean-spirited campaign.