Rove v.s TeaParty: Let the war begin

It's Rove and Co. vs. Tea Party: Let the GOP civil war begin

...and:

Rove Ready To Fight Tea Party Influence
Karl Rove's New Super-PAC: Republicans Attacking Republicans![/u]

The goal, as the New York Times reported this weekend, is blocking future Akins and Mourdocks from winning Senate primaries, while paving the way for less-divisive candidates with broader appeal and better odds of winning the general election. "We don't view ourselves as being in the incumbent protection business, but we want to pick the most conservative candidate who can win," Steven Law, the president of American Crossroads and a force behind the Conservative Victory Fund, told the Times.

Law singled out Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who could run to replace outgoing Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, as a controversial candidate the Conservative Victory Fund might target. King has a penchant for howlers: He's hinted at questions about President Obama's US citizenship, claimed minority students all "feel sorry for themselves," insisted that the idea of diversity making American stronger "has really never been backed up by logic," and compared illegal immigrants to dogs. "We're concerned about Steve King's Todd Akin problem," Law said. "All of the things he's said are going to be hung around his neck." (King, for his part, said choosing the candidate to replace Harkin "is a decision for Iowans to make and should not be guided by some political staffers in Washington.")

The Conservative Victory Fund's creation threatens to stoke an already fiery internal battle over the future of the Republican Party. There are the Roves and Laws of the GOP, the pragmatic Beltway operators who backed Mitt Romney and who believe the party must tone down the demagoguery on immigration and social issues if they ever want to control of Congress and the White House again. On the other side are the ideologues, the GOP's conservative wing, the Koch-backed groups and tea partiers and Grover Norquist acolytes who believe the party's future lies in veering hard to the right and doubling down on pure conservative ideals.

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Just in time for 2014... Let the 'Bagger Games begin... Here's hoping that the faction that thinks the "future lies in veering hard to the right and doubling down on pure conservative ideals" wins...

Dupe. (already in Blazer Bob's forum.) Please merge threads. :buildsnow

Since I don't go into Blazer Bob's Forum, I don't need your permission to start a thread.

OK, sorry, meant it as a joke. Was playing like VL does.