We See Your Zell Miller & Raise You a Ron Reagan

The news that the sainted former president's son Ron Reagan Jr. would speak up for stem-cell research at the Democratic Party Convention in a couple of weeks has set Republicans to foaming at the mouth. We heard that William F. Buckley has called young Ron a traitor (though I haven't found that source in print yet). Guess "the Big Tent" has been folded and put in storage. Deep storage.

We love it. The more they rage against Ron, the higher the profile he'll have at the convention for his remarks. That's always the way purges work -- they inadvertently highlight exactly what the purgers don't want to highlight. It's like the North Carolina Republican Party kicking out their moderate members and mounting a holy war against State House co-speaker Richard Morgan and his pals. Shows us exactly why we don't want these guys in charge.

And highlights, by contrast as well, the fact that the Dems haven't purged Zell Miller, possibly because he's doing such a splendid job himself of flushing his "legacy" right down the toilet.