Towards the center?
Nah...more like towards the left.
Just look at the most recent Republican administration, the first to face a throughly Republican-controlled Congress since Coolidge.
Except, unlike Coolidge, who actually reduced the size of the Federal government and its debt and spending, the most recent Republican administration engaged in "compassionate conservatism" and outspent all its predecessors.
The fact of the matter is that...
No Republican since Coolidge has ever reduced the size of the Federal government and its spending and debt.
Reagan tried but faced a barely Republican-controlled Senate and a Democrat-controlled House.
And unless we find another Coolidge or another Reagan and pair him/her with throughly libertarian conservatives, and quickly, then we're screwed.
It's tough these days to figure out who hates the libertarian right more; socialists or the fiscally (un)conservative neocons.
Big lie: “Republican controlled Congress.”
Jumpin’ Jeffers.
“I was always a Democrat” Spectre