Exactly. The GOPe is the new Democrat party. The old democrats are progressives, socialists, and communists. Conservatism is on the rise due to pissed off republicans, independents, and democrats who have had enough of Obama.
The first problem in having a conservative president of the United States is that you have to have a United States. The folks who created the U.S. were not conservatives. They were firebrands standing against overseas tyranny, corrutpion and incompetence (we are talking George III here).
Situation today is not a whole lot different.