Well, I guess the turmoil is good for the Dems.
Lets look back at 2008.
I think that Huckaby lost the primary to McCain solely because of McCain's stellar military service, because there wasn't a nickel's worth of difference between them on policy. But Huckaby was a pretty good governor so it was really a wash between them. The only one that was truly honest was Paul and he was just unelectable. Most of the GOP probably agreed with 85% of his policies, BTW.
But the entire electable field of candidates had Repubs trying to "out democrat the democrats".
And then the moderate demos were trying to "out republican the republicans". They won. But we saw Pelosi whip them like step children so it will be interesting to see if the voters remember that. I'm betting they won't, that the MSM will brainwash them again. It's just sickening if you ask me. If the GOPs want to run like moderate democrats we will either vote them out in the primaries or they will be whipped in the general. Again...So yes it would seem that you are right.