Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It was really there all the time i.e. how the GOP did everything they could to cost Reagan the nomination etc.
Yes, but the way I figure it, only people who follow this stuff, and who are 60 or 65 and older would have any recollection of that. That's only a tiny percentage of voters.
The fight for control of the party is an old one going all the way back to the days of Rockefeller, Carnegie, and JP Morgan before the McKinley/Rockefeller election trying to rule the nation. That is actually where the term Rockefeller Republican originated. He was a Progressive as in meaning a Liberal. Rockefeller for all practical purposes after Lincoln was the father of expanded federal government and federal powers.