Wow wow .. I don't follow your logic here. Does "Rep = neoCON" has been allways true?
Note that sometime it's get very confusing in politic. The reason is that oftentimes the right make the politic of the left and the left make the politic of the right ... although even this has evolved recently: then the right was elected by promising left's politics and vise versa ...
Here in Canada and mostly in Quebec, the right is now in the Liberal party, and left is in the conservative (nationalist kind of because the conservative party died somewhere and the right goes with dissident Liberal Party and find themselves in a rather almost-socialist party). It's very complex but the end result is the right is now in the Liberal party and the chief is the former Federal Conservative party chief.
In other words, the real power is now completely outside politic and politic party are some kind of domain used by those Mafia-type power and don't have any meaning anymore.
And yes, KISS … ya, keep it simple if you can …