Seriously, if you don’t know that this kind of behind the scenes type of stuff goes on all the time (and it doesn’t even need to involve establishment vs. conservatives...it can just as easily be political factions around certain personalities), then you really are a neophyte. It’s what happened to Hayworth, and why he was districted into a much more centrist district that includes a large chunk of urban Maricopa County (read Phoenix). This remains so, whether you choose to believe it or not.
Women love rumors, I don’t.
Of course alliances exist in politics. Some are successful, some not. If we do not learn how to be successful and make the right alliances then we are left howling at the moon.