Why do we have so many people ignoring Reagan's assertion that the gOP only wins when it's conservative? See the "Let them go their own way" speech given at CPAC in March of '75. There's a thread on it somewhere around here, and he gave it after the GOP lost a bunch of seats in Congress because of overspending and corruption. Does that sound familiar? The response of many GOP types was that the answer to this was to move to the left, because people had voted for Dems, so they must want liberalism. Reagan called BS on that and said the GOP would win again when they marched under a banner of bold colors and asserted conservative ideas.
Here is a link to Reagan's "Let them go their way" CPAC speech delivered after the GOP got pummelled in the mid-term elections (held three months after Nixon resigned).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735897/posts