ACU Cries "Bring Back the Hack!"

The American Conservative Union, self-described as the nation's oldest conservative advocacy group, is doing its best to get Manuel Miranda back to work for the Senate GOP. You remember Mr. Miranda. He's the Frist aide who got busted stealing thousands of confidential strategy memos from Democratic computers and was forced to resign. Remember? Then he leaked these confidential memos to sympathetic press outlets? Here is a good sketch of Miranda's activities, for which the Justice Department is considering criminal charges.

To rehire Miranda would be about as wise as hiring a participant in the Iran-Contra scandal as the newAmbassador to Iraq.