RINOs tend to attack Conservatives with more energy than they attack LIBs/DIMs. I guess they realize that they are goners when Conservatives prevail. If the LIBs/DIMs prevail, RINOs like to lick their boots.
Exactly right.
Romney is another example. The GOP needs to WIN. Then fight it out with ourselves.
The GOPe has been reversing that process, and so doing has very much damaged the GOP itself.
WIN. Then struggle amongst our own party, for control.