Really except for a few standouts like Reagan as far as POTUS goes it's been either Moderate or Liberals of the Ike, Ford, Nixon, Bush caliber. Sad to say that has also happened with out leadership in both houses.
People tend to forget it was SML Dr Bill Frist-RINO-TN who penned Medicare reform which has lead us down the road to Obamacare along with Liberals like Romney and even Lamar Alexander has a history of supporting such when Medicaid reform hit Tennessee. Frist simply copied a program put into place earlier by a Liberal Tennessee DEM governor and all the party loyals said how brilliant he was.
The time has come for Conservatives too refocus, regroup, and find a new political party home. It can be done and it must be done if our nation is too ever have a course correction from the destructive one it is on today guided by both parties.
Right now the only choice my conscience allows me to support for POTUS is Virgil Goode.
While Goode may have been a DEM is was a part of the Democratic Party that was far more conservative than that which the GOP Post-Reagan years have produced.
I also look at the founding and founder of The Constitution Party. Howard Phillips is the founder of the Constitution Party was a co-founder of The Moral Majority along with Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell. Like the Moral Majority or hate them this group of men united a good segment of clergy and churches into joining a grassroots movement to bring social conservatism issues back into our government. This crossed party lines as well.
Mitt Romney because of his hard core Liberal record on issues is as unacceptable to me as Obama is. We will never see real changes until we stop being enablers. That decision to say "NO MORE" from both parties starts with an individuals vote.
Other than from 1980-1988, it never has been a Conservative Party. The Rockefeller Republicans and Country Clubbers have been in firm control outside of that range.