Here’s part of an editorial from the Concord, N.H., Monitor in 1980. No doubt the ivory-towered journalist came to his conclusion with chin in hand, pipe in clinched teeth, and patched elbows on his mainframe computer terminal:

Ronald Reagan – The former California governor is simply too old (69), too doctrinaire, too inexperienced in the intricacies of the federal government. We gravely question his capability to withstand the daily physical and emotional battering that the nation’s chief executive must endure.

How do newspaper editorialists, lik former Marxist professors, live down their past embarrassing conclusions?