>Above all, Reagan's death lures the troublesome paleo-conservatives
>back into the Big Tent.
Not necessarily. Reagan's political genius was in part about finessing all these divisions within the right - traditionalist vs. libertarian, religious vs. market, paleo- vs. neo-. (Since a lot of people on the left don't understand these divisions, that's yet another reason they underestimate RR's importance.) Bush can't do that. If anything, he's opening up the fissures. After all the misty-eyed crap clears, people will be able to see that Bush is no Reagan.
Doug