Why not? Worked so well in 2008 and 2012.
“Why not? Worked so well in 2008 and 2012.”
Actually it hasn’t worked since 1988.
In 1988 George H.W. Bush ran, not as a moderate globalist, but as the third term of Reagan conservatism. He won the election and immediately purged the Reaganites from senior positions in the party and administration. He also reneged on his no new tax pledge to the voters. In 1992, running on his own record, he lost.
In 1996 the GOPe ran Robert Dole, a moderate. He lost.
In 2000 the GOPe ran George W. Bush. While a moderate at heart, like his father he tried to run as a conservative but under the label “compassionate conservative.” Bush lost the national popular vote by 2 million votes but won in the Electoral College. If Gore had obtained a number fewer than 1000 votes in Florida Gore would have won the Electoral College vote as well as the popular vote. The key point here is the RINO candidate could not win the popular vote.
In 2004, Bush had the advantage of incumbency, and an inept patrician opponent, yet won the popular vote by the narrowest margin for a winner in modern history.
In 2008, the GOPe candidate (McCain), who often voted with Democrats as a US Senator, lost. Same in 2012 with Romney, former governor of a very liberal state with a very liberal record.
The American people consistently vote against moderate to liberal country club Republicans. How many times does the party have to lose to understand what the voters are telling them? Or is it intentional?