I’m not sure that I disagree with you.
However, you missed the symmetry I was trying to point out. The dems twice went to the center left guy in 2000 and 2004. And the pubbies twice went to the center right guy in 2008 and 2012. All four times the centrists lost.
So yeah you’re right to ask whether the same pubbies who voted in Romney for their nominee in 2012 would vote for someone to his right in 2016.
I’m saying yeah, this could happen if the dems are any example. After seeing the center left candidates Al Gore and John Kerry lose to Bush, the next obvious center left candidate was Hillary. She lost to the far left candidate Obama in 2008.
Would the pubbies do the same thing. Will they vote for someone who is on the far right in 2016? Just as the dems voted for someone on the far left in 2008? I don’t know. Maybe. maybe not. But the psychology of being the party out of the white house for eight years will be the same for the pubbies in 2016, as it was for the dems in 2008.
Will they vote for someone who is on the far right in 2016?
FAR right???.. who, where, why, ....
There is NO far right.. if there is a “right” at all..
If I could find ANYthing far right I would join it.. I cannot..
Closest thing I know thats anything close to “right” is free republic..
And we have many Bushbots and Romneyacs here... and a few McCaineoids..
When the Fiat Money finally gives up the ghost
Many will wiping their Asks with it..
Then the big and not so big cites will ERUPT..
Which is exactly what the democrats are hoping (and planning) for..
It will be some version of Mad MAx...