>>>this is nothing on the scale of the massive national battle of the Reagan versus Rockefeller branches of the GOP wars of the 1970s
Reagan had to compromise in 1980, when he made GHW Bush, from the Rockefeller wing of the GOP, his Vice-President. When Reagan stepped down in 1989, the Rockefeller Republicans seized full control of the GOP, once more.
You are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Why step on your candidate by getting silly and invoking famous historical figures to compare him to, all you are going to do is get everyone mocking your naivety and your grandiosity.