[freedomfiter2]

Because if the GOP is also left wing, than conservatives like us here on FR are truly a small minority then.

We are. How much of the GOP actually wants to end abortion? cut the size of government? keep marriage just for one man and one woman? eliminate pay to play and other forms of bribery? actually live under the US constitution as written?
By what measure is the GOP even centrist? The fact that it is to the right of where the Democrats are today?

[gusty]

Actually a large majority of the GOP wants to end abortion and is for traditional marriage. Even so called RINOs like Gov. Christie are with you on those. Now cut the size of government is a little more complicated. I think the vast majority of Republican politicians would love to cut the government to the bone, however the problem on this one is not them, it is us. We, us, pretend to want government cut. We pick out programs to eliminate that are a pimple on a rats ass. But when Medicare and Social Security enter the equation we all scream bloody murder. Don't cut my entitlements you will hear from Tea Party activists. The day the politicians know cutting entitlements will be popular with us, they will do it in a flash.