Paul Begala has been setting the Democratic talking point for today saying on CNN that he didn’t like the sarcasm of the speech — a point echoed by Harry Reid. “Ronald Reagan never used sarcasm,” Begala told viewers while pretending to be someone who actually admired Reagan.

Begala should go back and read the transcript of Reagan’s 1992 convention speech. Here is what he said about the Democratic convention that had occurred earlier that summer:

They put on quite a production in New York a few weeks ago. You might even call it slick. A stone’s throw from Broadway it was, and how appropriate. Over and over they told us they are not the party they were. They kept telling us with straight faces that they’re for family values, they’re for a strong America, they’re for less intrusive government.

And they call me an actor.