Establishment RINOs had better pick a battle they can win. Karl Rove has already lost ALL credibility with millions of conservatives for his scurrilous comments about Sarah (and Christine O’Donnell).
She’s helped a huge wave of new Tea-publicans win office, and for every one of them, there are hundreds of thousands of hard-core conservative activists. She’s got an army that the establishment RINOs should think twice about crossing.
Actually, that’s exactly what the liberals want. A GOP civil war. If the GOP tears itself apart from a brutal primary season, Obama will cruise to re-election.
And don’t discount the fact that liberals will be more than happy to tamper with the GOP primary in the open voting states (in other words in some states you do not have to be a registered Republican to vote for the Republican primary).
This will not be as easy as you think.
All of your points are correct. I would add only that the ‘army’ she has is very, very, very tired of being spun by party hacks at this point. The Reagan revolution was deliberately subverted, and here we are having to start over again.
We will not be fooled this time, nor will we be forgiving when it is attempted.