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I'm not a parent myself, but I'd say most parents at times probably do have the nightmare of what they might do if their child were kidnapped. And when there's a news story, it's something people can be pretty thoughtful and intelligent about.

And then Gov. Reagan was saying basically that the family should not pay the ransom.
http://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/01/a...st-food-is-peaceful-kidnappers-silent-no.html

Let's say he compounds this by further statements and shows what I think is kind of the truth, that he very much marches to his own drummer and at times can be a pretty clumsy individual.

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How does this affect the timeline of the Republican party and American conservatism in the late 1970s and beyond?
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