In the last weeks, I have been hearing a lot of nice things about Reagan’s intelligence – a lot of nice things. About how smart he was, and how much he loved ideas, and what a reader he was, etc. A real president of the mind.

Funny, because when he was president, all I heard was what a dunce he was, amiable or not.

Why am I hearing all this glowing stuff about my president this fall? Oh, yeah: It’s a way of knocking Governor Palin. What a dunce, certainly as compared with that brainiac Reagan.

Right, whatever . . .