For the last few years, the GOP has moved steadily to the right, and right now, there are simply no young moderates in the GOP, at least in positions of power. But the strange thing is, they aren't following the majority of Americans there. In fact, not only are they abandoning the middle, they have helped move millions of Americans to the left.
As the GOP has moved far right, there is no moderate middle to the right any more. This means that those right-leaning moderates have had no middle in the GOP to look for, and since the far right have no ideas other than to restrict womens rights, minority voting rights, and to dismantle the federal government, so they have had to look to the Democrats for ideas. And for the most part, they have found that Democrats aren't the crazies that the far-right GOP have portrayed them to be. This has made them more comfortable with moderate left ideas. And the farther right the GOP goes, the more moderates they peal away from the GOP and into the Independent or Democratic camp.
The movement of the GOP to the far right of the political spectrum wasn't a response to a majority of Americans, and this has actually helped move America a little to the left. If the GOP continues on its current path, the Tea Party will have just the opposite effect that it wanted to have, and it'll make the GOP not a regional political party, but a completely useless one that will be replaced by one with ideas that reflect a large segment of the country.
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