It always has been a two front political war.
Here’s the other front, Tim Carney at The Washington Examiner, K Street and Tea Party again fight for soul of GOP:
Big business and the Tea Party are at swords’ points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for the second straight election becoming proxy battles in the war over the soul of the Republican Party.Conservative insurgents pose serious threats this year to establishment Republicans in at least three open-seat Senate races. In every case, political action committees and lobbyists have hugely favored the establishment pick with contributions. One reason: The GOP establishment rallies industry donors behind the Republican seen as stronger in November. A deeper reason: The revolving-door clique of K Street and Capitol Hill operatives needs Republicans elected to upper chamber who are likely to play ball.
Paul Blumenthal at HuffPo stoplights the Lugar-Mourdock and Dewhurst-Cruz match-ups as the center of the fight, Senate Races 2012: Republican Establishment Tries To Tamp Down Tea Party Insurgency:
Six-term Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) seemed all alone in facing an insurgent Tea Party primary challenge from state treasurer Richard Mourdock, who is backed by big money from the Club for Growth and FreedomWorks. In the past few weeks, however, top GOP senators, establishment Republican groups, and big-name donors have stepped in with a mix of ads touting Lugar’s long career and blasting Mourdock in an effort to save the embattled incumbent.On Tuesday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) endorsed Lugar and announced they would cut ads to support him. Last week, the American Action Network, a conservative group with ties to the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., launched a campaign of negative ads against Mourdock, costing more than $300,000. Major donors, including former fundraisers for President George W. Bush and McCain, are putting money into pro-Lugar super PACs.
You can sit it out and moan and groan, or get involved. You can support Richard Mourdock here and Ted Cruz here.
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