The Bright One

The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto "gets into" Jennifer Hunter's story from yesterday's Sun-Times about the "staunch Republican" lawyer, Jim Ronca, who boldly declared after last weekend's Democratic candidate forum in Chicago that "I'm not only going to vote Democratic, I'm going to financially support the Democrats."

Taranto, who apparently learned more about Ronca from his office in New York than Hunter did after interviewing him face-to-face, reports in his "Best of the Web" column today that in the past 4 election cycles, "Ronca has given $6,750 to Democrats, nine times as much as the $750 he has given Republicans; and his most recent GOP donation was three elections ago."

Maybe Mr. Ronca is from the Mike Madigan wing of the Republican Party.