Just a quick search found this.
They are trying for a comeback. Personally, one shot in the barrel is all you get and they screwed it up so badly the first time that it actually morphed into the Republican Party. Many of the old Whigs just switched to the Republicans just like Progressives morphed into Liberals because the Prog label was too toxic after Wilson.
In that we are already screwed to the wall from both Parties, it is not time to resurrect one that forgot who they were there for, but to start over again to marginalize both with one that its only platform forever will be strict adherence to the Constitution, period.
Let's hit the Reset Button already. The sooner we do, the sooner it will start to turn around. Face it, there is no way to "fix" the Republican establishment just as there is no way to "fix" Obamacare.