Do you mean by that they will get away with using Reagan's funeral for politics, or that they will claim that Bush is using this funeral for his advantage?
I meant that they'll get the backlash, be it from their behavior at the Wellstone funeral or using President Reagan's passing for political gain.
Bill Schneider on CNN said that conservatives had better not appropriate President Reagan's death for political gain, and then CNN ran a film clip of the Wellstone memorial, implying that it would be conservatives who would suffer a backlash of public opinion since the deceased is one of our own, but I think it's more likely that the backlash will be against the left.
Schneider seemed to think, IMO, that it's our turn to face the backlash.