Lol...by far right you mean what? McCain and Willard were neo con idiots...both had far right/neo con foreign policies....Santorum was REALLY far right...guy scared the shit out of me. What got McCain and Willard beat was they aren't what people want even within the party...the younger folks don't want their kind anymore.
Actually they are, minus the neo-conservatism. What the younger folks don't want are the social traditionalist candidates, neither McCain nor Romney being evangelical or fundamentalists.
I am hoping the party will adopt a more libertarian view toward non-interference overseas.