Those of us who said this were raked across the coals here on FR, called traitors and democrat enablers. "You will just cause democrats to get elected and you will continue to lose more rights" was the chant I kept hearing.
If you keep voting Republican no matter what kind of BS legislation those idiots keep signing, then you are the ones who are causing us to lose our rights.
The GOP won't necessarily move right. They could decide to go where the votes are. In which case, conservatives are marginalized, and we are in worse shape than we are now.