These personalities all relished taking part into the culture wars.
They have the same characteristics and set of policies:
Strident partisanship.
Global warming denial.
Anti-intelectualism.
Pro-life to the extreme (even in cases of rape and incest).
Fervent opposition to gay rights, bordering to hate.
Fervent opposition to immigration reform.
Don't you think that these stances made the republican party as a whole an unacceptable choice to many voters?
Of course
I do not, as you cannot even spell "intelectualism" correctly.
The Democrats are full of it as well. Try again.
Of course we deny it, because it does not exist.
See above. Also, disagreement with a liberal "intellectual" does not equal anti-intellectualism.
That is not "pro-life to the extreme". A person is "pro-life to the extreme" when he opposes legal abortion when necessary to save the mother's life. Besides, if we did favor abortion in the cases that you mentioned, then you would accuse us of hypocrisy.
We oppose "gay rights", because there is no such thing. The only "rights" that gays have are the same rights that all other people have.
Support for immigration "reform" is a codeword for support for illegals.