The longer the conservative, die-hard Republicans refuse to get off their plantation, the harder it wll be to turn this nation around. They need to WAKE UP! The GOP isn't conservative anymore! They are reverting to being the party of Lincoln again: Lincoln, the Great Centralizer; Radical Republicans.
I guess it just takes conservatives a long time to realize that their party doesn't represent their views anymore. It took decades for conservative Democrats to make themselves get out of the party. A few of them STILL won't admit the truth to themselves.
The only thing un-conservative about Lincoln was his protectionism no matter what you neoconfederates say( and I tend to believe protectionism was just something he had to be for to get elected rather than something he really believed in).