Can the George Pataki model be replicated?

[David Hume]

Larry Hogan has always struck me as having more in common with Pataki than current peers like Phil Scott and Charlie Baker.

This is true. Larry Hogan is a very moderate Republican, but Baker and especially Scott are literal RINOs. They would fit right in with moderate Democrats were they to switch parties.

Well, people i mentioned (Case, Mathias, plus Javits, Brooke a.o.) were more liberal, then "moderate Democrats" of their time. And almost nobody called them "RINO's", btw....

Two of them lost their primaries though of course none of the four would even get to 25% today.

Yeah, but Case and Javits were rather old and not in good health. And in New Jersey Republicans can't win Senate seat after Case, and in New York even D'Amato (who was considered a conservative then) could probably be the most liberal Republican Senator now (IMHO - he was more moderate then even Collins now on most issues..)...

In what sense is D'Amato more moderate than Collins?