What the Stupid Party never seems to learn is a “moderate” can give the Evil Party every concession it demands and at the end of the day he’ll still be smeared as a right wing extremist. [More]Can they really believe the answer is to turn their backs on the base and side with the enemy?
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The other thing the Stupid Party never seems to learn is that the Left will never vote for a Republican, no matter how "moderate" he/she may be. If there's a 'D' on the ticket, they will vote for that.
The Evil Party understands this; they assume GOP voters won't vote for their candidates so there's no reason to woo "moderates". I believe it's why many of the Democratic candidates lately have shifted so far left, while GOP candidates have not shown a matching right-shift (if anything, they've shifted left, too). It's safe for the Evil Party to shift left; their voters would support an open socialist, a mass murderer, or a can of beans over an 'R' candidate.
It also makes it safe to accuse any GOP candidate, no matter how "moderate", of "right-wing extremism".
IOW, there's literally no point to preemptive surrender, or in "going along to get along"; they'll never win Democrat votes anyway*. All that does is squelch conservative support...
... and lose elections.
The GOP: Narrowly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for five generations and counting.
(* - See: Oregon gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler. An AMA-certified doctor, pro-choice, pro-vaccine, pro-LGBT, anti-gun, and endorsed by several major newspapers, including Portland-based "The Oregonian". Still lost to Kate Brown because his "moderate" stance offended many conservatives, and despite those Leftist bona fides Democrats still wouldn't vote for him.)
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