LOSER GOP has 2 issues: Racist Xenophobic fear & End Days near because gays & abortion

Republicans are running on 2 issues:

1. Racist, Xenophobic fear. I lump Kenyan communist Black Muslim Obamaphobia with this. I’m waiting for Rubio to stop running against Obama but he’ll say it again. 
2. Evangelical Christianity, abortion / anti-gay. The End Days Apocalypse are near because-homosexuals & abortion. 

So why on earth would “party leaders” hope the fear part would subside:

Republicans Fire Up Immigration Talk Heading Into South Carolina 

By ALEXANDER BURNSFEB. 12, 2016 

"...Party leaders had hoped some of the most provocative speech would have subsided by now as the race moved past Iowa, a state known for its fiercely hawkish immigration politics, and as more conventional candidates, like former Gov. Jeb Bush and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, turned their attention toward the general election."