Yes that too. But sometimes the “moderates” simply do not attack. They let the Rats set the tone for campaigns.
Reagan won in both 1980 and 1984 because he set the tone for the campaigns and used it to his advantage.
If you are making the point that our “leaders” on the right are, on the whole, a spineless group you will get no argument from me. The good ones are few and far between and like Obama I wouldn’t follow them into a bunker on a golf course no less a bunker in a firefight.