One good Reagan deserves...

Now that Ron Reagan has spoken at the Democratic National Convention (and there is no way you can consider that non-partisan), the Republicans would like to trump him with Nancy at theirs. But she's not biting.

Initial inquiries from party officials to Mrs. Reagan's advisors in California have been rebuffed, a Reagan confidant said, "but they may still be working on her."

Ed Gillepse, Republican National Committee chairman said he would understand if she did not attend, as she has been through a lot lately. Over at the National Republic, they aren't buying it:

Nancy Reagan is undoubtedly drained and in mourning. But that wasn't enough to keep her from speaking last month at the public christening of an aircraft carrier named after her husband. Sure, a national convention is a much bigger ordeal than a ceremony naming an aircraft carrier. But I have a feeling that's not what's going on here--and that Gillespie knows it.

As Puff Daddy once said, it's all about the stem cells, baby.