You must be new to politics, then.
In the 1920's, Republican governor Lynn Frazier (later, Senator Frazier) was scandalized because his platform of pure Socialism (e.g. state owned and run bank, grain mill, etc.), once enacted in North Dakota, led to such rampant corruption that he became the first governor to ever be recalled.
Likewise, in the 1960's and 1970's, Republican President Nixon gave us the EPA, Affirmative Action, opened up Communist China, and pulled out of the Vietnam War.
Frankly, Republicans have grown increasingly *more* conservative and less Socialistic over time; not the other way around. Privatizing Social Security would have had Republican elites in full blown snit-fits in the 1970's, for instance, yet today, Republicans embrace such privatization efforts.
Republicans no longer run on policy platforms of pure, unadulterated Socialism. This is a vast improvement from the 1920's and 1930's.
We've come a long way baby.