Predicted Next GOP Presidential Candidate

[Tartarus Sauce]

The problem is that your theory bases itself solely on the past trend without consideration for the current conditions. The only reason that Santorum was the runner-up in 2012 was because there was no other "moderate" other than Romney. We have seen from the past two elections that the utter batshit insane jokes of political candidates have no chance in hell of winning the nomination since they aren't able to "moderate" their stance under certain situations. Santorum is the type of person that will be utterly unwilling to bow in to party pressure to tone it down a bit. If he is actually the most moderate candidate they can thrown in for the next election then the Republicans as a party are officially screwed at that point.