The Republican party has long since been coopted by the evangelical Christian right wing and no longer serves its core values. Hell, it's not even supposed to be a right wing party. We can talk all we want about supposed party ideals which are totally antiquated (I mean really, do you think we're actually going to get rid of the federal bureaucracy?) but it all boils down to right wing and left wing because that's the way things will always line up in a two party system.