they are gone—Died with Nelson Rockefeller—Now they are RINO Republicans and support Mitt Romney and Donald Trump (but he’s a bit too conservative for many of them).
In the 1968 election the MSM framed the issue as will the Republicans go with the "electable" Rockefeller or the dastardly conservative Richard Nixon. Sound familiar?
The party went with Nixon and still won, to the deep disappointment of the MSM.