Please explain....
I think the interesting question is what would happen to the GOP if it became a conservative party. It looked for a while in 80 84 and 94 that it might....but subsequently it appears that Reagan and the C of Am was the high mark, not the beginning of a draft rightwards in this country.
In what I have observed, with the exception of 1964, when Republicans articulate a consistent conservative message, they do well. When they don't, they lose.
Now the contrary evidence is that the GOP won the White House in 88, 2000 and 2004 with a moderate, and then a moderately conservative candidate. 41 and 43 are obviously to the left of RR, and 43 is obviously to the right of 41. So on those elections, one could say that when the GOP is moderate it wins. The obvious counter to that is 76.
I don't know exactly how the politics will play out nationally. But I tend to favor the thesis that a true, conservative/populist/libertarian/Main Street/socially conservative campaign will always do pretty well, provided the man carrying the message can smile a bit and not always look like he's sucking on a lemon. That is REagan's legacy and it is powerful. We haven't seen anything like it since.
Therefore, though obviously the CP is irrelevant, since it gets fewer votes than a city council candidate in a big city, the fact remains that it has hashed out a truly conservative agenda...one which I think personally that the GOP should adopt as its own. We will lose the today show and a bunch of mods in so doing, but I still think we would win.
That's my $.02.