They can’t attack their allies after all, can they?
If anything, the animosity in the GOP is worse than that with the Democrats, because the RINOs and GOP-e hate conservatives at a personal level, not just because of policy difference.
Just in the last day or two, John McCain has been bragging about how he and his people have been purging Tea Party members from the Arizona Republican party. It is payback for their having censured him. And John McCain is nothing if not vengeful. His temper is well known in Washington, and with his beer-heiress wife’s deep pockets, he has and will destroy anyone who opposes him in the state. Not just politically, but personally, he will crush them, ruin them.