I disagree, we haven’t nominated anyone with conservative credentials since 1984 so how would we know?
We had Bush41 run on Reagan’s record and promptly toss it away with his kinder gentler crap and a huge tax increase. Dole was the poster boy for GOPE congressional produced mush. Bush 43 ran on his compassionate conservative BS and scrapped by and I mean scrapped by, mainly because Gore and Kerry were insufferable but he was no raging conservative. Then we get McIsain, what is there to say about this lunatic, but if you hadn’t had Palin on the ticket his humiliation would have been even worse. Then another GOPE handpicked poodle Romney who couldn’t even beat Carter II!
The GOPE is the reason why we keep getting mush for nominees, Reagan controlled the party for 8 yrs. and they hated every minute of it and no doubt many vowed they would never relinquish that power again and haven’t. They control all the levers of power in the Party and those who think you can take over the GOP from within are smoking something they probably shouldn’t be, it’s not going to happen.
Republican primary voters have repeatedly, including 2014, placed their trust in the GOP-e. We must be awaiting a disaster no matter how the elections turn out.