I’m most likely preaching to the choir here, but:

Republicans have only one goal: to tilt the balance of power in favor of themselves (and potentially their base); either by granting themselves more influence, or by stripping it from others.

This is why they claim to value tradition, moderation, small government, fiscal responsibility, and family values: because their actual agenda is wholly unappealing to anyone outside their group.

As we can see in the example above however, Republicans will quickly betray their own purported values when doing so will forward their efforts to seize power.