Republicans are indeed 'the right' in the USA. Or at least farther to the right than those less right, but not necessarily more wrong.
I don't know if all the candidates for the Republican nomination thump the good-book so much as something I think might be called the book of Norman.
You, Roger, have them all beat with your Thesaurus.

Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.