Reagan's Words are Relevant Today On March 1, 1975, in the wake of the disastrous post-Watergate election, Ronald Reagan stood before a disheartened Conservative Political Action Conference and proclaimed, "A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers." Then, as now, there was a din of voices from the media and from "moderate" Republicans calling on the Party to abandon its conservative principles. Reagan's Message Here is what Ronald Reagan told the assembled delegates of CPAC that day: "I...