Yep. They tried in '76. They still to this day can't believe ronny didn't get the nomination to run against Carter. And to this day, they still vilify Carter, who ronny didn't have moral character to shine his shoes.
Conservative America is like the first Jamestown settlement, that welcomed the natives showing them how to feed themselves off the land, but waited for help from England, to kill them during the week, while dunking their women in water on Sunday's because they displayed witch like tendencies.
And that hasn't changed not one iota.