Well look there are obviously two factions fighting for dominance within the larger Republican Party. You have the faction of paleo-conservatives that consist of strict constructionists and classical liberals, and then you have the neo-conservatives that push interventionism, strong centralized consolidated government, the new world order, globalism. Does the latter even belong in the “Republican” Party or are they interlopers and infiltrators from the left, or not the left but some extra spoke on the wheel we haven’t discovered yet? I say they are infiltrators from somewhere taking advantage (undeservedly) of the reputation real republicans built up over years, hence the prefix neo or new. And this new faction is the one attempting to eliminate Paul; not the whole party, not the faction of paleo-conservatives. Neo conservatives would be happy if all paleos, not just Paul, disappeared forever. Paleo Conservatives need to say to the “new” guys “get out” and go back to the left fringe where you belong, or whatever rock you came out from under. Shrink the republican party of its leftist/undefined element and you will mysteriously simultaneously grow it as the true right feels welcome here again and returns from libertarian and constitution party fringes, displacing those neos now gone. Then there will be no need for separate “neo” or new, and “paleo” or old conservative designations, it will be just “conservative” because the leftist faction was simply ejected;...as they never should have been admitted in the first place. IMHO. Then the republican party would properly be a home to people like Paul, rather than him, and the rest of us, feeling like a guest in his/our own house.
I meant to say, "This new faction, not the whole party, and not the faction of paleoconservatives, is the one attempting to eliminate Paul."
A little less awkward this way.