Exactly. The compromise is always expected of conservatives in the Republican party to the point we are today...more taxes, more screwed up social policy, a flat out socialist for President. Being left wing lite in order to say a Republican won is DUMB.
Yup. When a party decides its principles will be nothing more than obtaining, and maintaining, power and control, it consciously lays the foundation for a party of secular religiosity, and ultimately statism.