[Olog-hai]

If the AP felt the need to publish this hit piece, then their Democratic masters must be feeling heat indeed.

[Uncle Miltie]

Romney(Care) couldn't attack 0bamaCare because he was its intellectual father.

RomneyRinoCare

[jimfree]

Yep, when the AP is worried about our internal squabbling you know it’s time to vote Democrat.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Or, as ultra liberal Ron Fournier at the National Journal writes today: DEM PARTY F****D.

I think Fournier right, AP wrong.

[cotton1706]

Quite the contrary. Next year we may remove from power, the minority leader and whip of the senate, and also the Speaker of the House and his lieutenants.

We have found someone who fearlessly fights the democrats (Cruz) and the democrats have been thwarted on the Sequester, Gun Control, Immigration (so far) and Obamacare.

Romney should be as remembered as Alf Landon. Who?? Exactly!!

[jdege]

We’re facing a stark choice. Either we change the direction in which the country is moving, or we run off the cliff.

The way I see it, the Tea Party is the only significant force trying to slow down our head-long rush into disaster. Truthfully, I expect them to fail. And I expect them to destroy the GOP in the process. But for them to succeed is our only possible future that doesn’t involve massive societal destruction. So it’s a long shot, but at this point it’s our only option.

If they succeed, the GOP will be fine, and the country will be better off. If they fail, the GOP will be destroyed, and that will be so small a part of our problems that no one will notice.

[Zathras]

Translation: “Our woe’s are the 5 ho’s”
McCain, Graham, Boehner, McConnell, Cantor

[dfwgator]

If the AP felt the need to publish this hit piece, then their Democratic masters must be feeling heat indeed.

The thing is, they're right...The GOP is in its' death throes....Especially the GOPe.

[Iron Munro]

The GOP is struggling to control tensions between its Tea Party and establishment wings

The GOP DEMOCRAT-LITE PARTY is struggling to control tensions between its Tea Party and establishment RINO wings

[meadsjn]

Romney had about 20% of the Republican primary vote all the way through the primaries. The other 80% was split among the truck-load of conservatives and faux-conservatives who so desperately needed their own personal public crash-n-burn experience.

Romney lost because he could not articulate any conservative message, mostly because such would be a foreign language for him. The same problem sunk McCain, damaged Bush severely in 2000 and 2004, sunk Dole, sunk Bush I, and sunk Ford.

Crony corruption is not free-market capitalism; it is not "severely conservative"; it does not appeal to the 80% of Republican voters who rejected Romney throughout the primaries; and it is not part of the Republican Party Platform.

The bigger worry for many party leaders is the growing rift between business-oriented Republicans and the GOP’s more ideological wing.

Constitutional conservatives are all for business-oriented, free market, common sense economic policies that are good for all businesses, large and small, and good for individuals of all sizes, shapes, and colors.

[grania]

It's kind of weird. The RNC-RINOs wanted the hispanic vote, so they said. Ted Cruz just handed them the Cuban vote and the vote of like-minded successful, educated, and intelligent hispanics. Only those hispanics are conservative. So now the RNC doesn't want that vote so much?

Ted Cruz would win the presidency in 2016...as a conservative. hillary is old and has Benghazi baggage. So what's the problem with the RNC?....don't they want to win?

[pas]

I hope they continue to ignore public opinion and do what is right. The right thing is not always the most polular.

[Steve_Seattle]

"widely seen as a major Republican embarrassment"

That is, widely presented by the pro-Democratic press as a Republican embarrassment.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Let's correct something, it's not "business-oriented Republicans", it's government-oriented businesses, mostly attached to the financial services industries, the Fed and government control Republicans. Crony Capitalists within the GOP want to elect Republicans to manipulate the government for their benefit.

More "ideological Republicans" are to dumbies who believe in the US Constitution and Rule of Law. How quaint.

[Eagle of Liberty]

business-oriented Republicans and the GOP’s more ideological wing.

ROFL!!! Yeah, that pesky "more ideological wing" doesn't give a rip about American businesses and JOBS, huh?

Keep writing hit pieces like this and the rift will continue to grow!