The joke will be on them when this stuff helps him get elected in the general election, and then...
...he becomes a functional social conservative, consistent with his decades-long lawyer's lawyer support of federalism and strict constructionism. Not shying away from a fight, he will use his national hero status and charm with the American public to get Janice Rogers Brown appointed to SCOTUS.
...pushes through private social security accounts and is eventually credited with unwinding FDR. Similarly reforms or eliminates the income tax and pushes through school vouchers. (He already had more success in NYC than Reagan or Bush on these types of issues, and that was before his national hero status.)
...moves far to the right of Bush in prosecuting the war in Iraq and on Terror, once again using his unique status to get America to go along with him.