There might be something to that, but the Republican party itself has moved so far to the right--in a process that predated Obama but does seem to have accelerated with his election, I kinda suspect because he's b-l-a-c-k--that I don't see where many less nutty candidates would have come from. For me, the difference between Pawlenty or Christie or Daniels and this clown parade isn't all that significant, but there are those who claim them to be more "centrist"--but it's obvious that the primary votes just aren't there for them in the party as it's now constructed.
