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With similar respect, I did not attend that event. My recollection of the 1976 Kansas City GOP national convention was that the delightfully noisy and disruptive Reagan delegates made it impossible for Ford to give his acceptance speech unless Reagan was allowed to speak to the convention first and that Reagan took to the podium to thank his delegates and to urge them to go home and work to elect their US senators and congressman, governors and state legislators and win a big victory-—nary a word about Ford on national TV. That was the equivalent of “Screw Ford and his pals and I’ll be back in four years.” If Reagan just said Republican ticket, I believe that what he meant did not include Ford or Dole. It doesn’t matter now but many of us who had led his effort took it that way and I am ashamed to say I voted for Ford in November, 1976, on the usual excuse that the Demonrat candidate Jimmuh Cahtuh was the boogie man and we just HAD to vote for yet another RINO that one LAST time-—at least according to the usual gang of DC Insiders/GOP-E suspects.

I am ashamed to say I voted for Ford in November, 1976, on the usual excuse that the Demonrat candidate Jimmuh Cahtuh was the boogie man and we just HAD to vote for yet another RINO that one LAST time

In 1976 it was cool to be a Boogie Man ... Get down tonight with K.C. and the Sunshine Band!

Tangential story. My wife and I have avoided references to the bogey man (1940s version, with some guy named Humphrey playing the part) with our children to avoid all the ritual and inconvenience the bogey man entails.

Quite spontaneously, based only on a classic book cover, my three year old boy has developed a phobia of Mother Goose, thinking that creepy old broad was going to swoop in on her giant bird and take him away.

My eldest daughter used to have fears that Hillary Clinton was going to come to take her away.

If the bogey man doesn't exist, children must create him.