How to win?...Get your enemies to fight themselves

[GordonGecko]

Whether it's your opponents for the Presidential bid ripping each other to shreds...Mitt vs. Newt, Mitt vs Santorum, Newt vs. Santorum....


or it's your opponents in Congress.....Tangerine Tan vs. Turtle Head-

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/211325-payroll-tax-vote-divides-gop

 

[Union_Jack_1972]

Whether it's your opponents for the Presidential bid ripping each other to shreds...Mitt vs. Newt, Mitt vs Santorum, Newt vs. Santorum....


or it's your opponents in Congress.....Tangerine Tan vs. Turtle Head-

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/211325-payroll-tax-vote-divides-gop

The split in the GOP is wide and deep. Those like me that are consider RINO to moderate Libertarian are the enemy of the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party are the Neo-Libertarian movement mixed with Dixie-crats that loved Bush when he was President but hate Obama for havin' the same Presidential powers that Bush had.

So the divide is too deep and will cost the GOP the White House this November, and. If the Tea Party get their way and purge the moderate to liberal GOP along with the Libertarian faction that is not Neo then the GOP will fall to third party status.

This happen in the 1800's when the GOP started from a defunk political party, and it may happen agyain if the Moderate to Liberal GOP forces and leave with traditional Libertarians to start their own political party...

 

[GordonGecko]

If Tea Party had been "real" and not just the re-labelling of the same Dubya voters (too embarassed by 2008 to admit they supported the guy all the way for 8 years)....as well as eschewing the social conservatives (again, nearly impossible since they were the SAME Republican voters as before 2009).....

i.e. a real libertarian "movement" just based solely on fiscal conservatism and not the same GOP agenda as before Obama (as well as not laced with tons of Obama Derangement Syndrome)....it would have probably stayed popular and could have remained a force.

But once it was seen as TOTALLY in the bag for Republicans and Republicans only....shown to be calling for social conservatism (abortion, gay rights, etc.)....and as importantly shown to be easily IGNORED by the Republican leadership (2011 Budget, Debt Ceiling fight)....it became a joke, not just a hoax.