Main Cats Fully Engaged

Remember the cat fight over the role of racial politics in the rise of the GOP that I predicted a week ago after a column by David Brooks? The main cats are now fully engaged. Lou Cannon, Ronald Reagan's sympathetic biographer, offered an apologetic op-ed in yesterday's New York Times. The great communicator was a nice guy, and even quit the country club that discriminated against blacks! Reagan’s defenders protest furiously that he wasn’t personally bigoted. "So what?" rejoins Paul Krugman in this morning's paper. "We’re talking about his political strategy. His personal beliefs are irrelevant."

Meow.