PS -- There are no 'moderates' in the GOP, not as you mean it. What you call moderates are liberals who pick some minor issue to lay claim to being Republican. The left and the MSM then refer to them as moderates in order to paint conservatives as extremists.
Have you ever seen one of these so called moderates who are adamantly pro life and pro gun, or strongly anti government growth or higher taxes? I haven't.
Good point. No I haven't.
Come to think of it, I can't name any "Conservatives" off the top of my head who are "strongly anti big government and anti-higher taxes"
God knows the one we have in the White House, and those in the Senate and House for the last 6 years haven't seen a spending bill they didn't love.