It's an unfortunate political reality.
Reagan did it to unite the party and get the moderates behind him. I'm guessing you don't mind that in hindsight, I sure don't, it helped get him elected. It's called political necessity.
Times have changed since Reagan. There is a much deeper gulf between liberal and conseravative. More people are waking up.
The idea that a Repub Pres candidate has to have a moderate VP is not engraved in stone. Moderates do NOT win elections. They LOSE elections.
NO MODERATES! NONE! GET RID OF THEM! THEY ARE THE PROBLEM!
A moderate means someone who is not conservative, who is wishy washy, who has no spine, no guts, no gonads, who cares about what leftists, the MSM and the Dems think, is willing to compromise, back stab and surrender.
NO MODERATES!
Moderate Repubs are the very reason we are in such a sorry state right now.
No way is it a “political necessity”.
I call it “political suicide”!