The most acute division on the right — the one that will give Mitt Romney the most trouble — is not between moderates and hard-core right-wingers, between electability-minded pragmatists and ideologues, or between the Tea Party and the Republican establishment. It is between those Republicans who disagree withBarack Obama, believing his policies to be mistaken, and those who hate Barack Obama, believing him to be wicked. Mitt Romney is the candidate of the former, but is regarded with suspicion, or worse, by the latter. The former group of Republicans would be happy merely to win the presidential election, but the latter are after something more: a national repudiation of President Obama, of his governmental overreach, and of managerial progressivism mainly as practiced by Democrats but also as practiced by Republicans. NRO
We have two groups in the Republican Party, the Romney/RINO group that want to borrow big and spend big and the Tea Party group that wants to borrow small, and spend small. Republicans are the only party which was designed for expansive socialism, federal government involvement in trade. The Republican party is simply arguing about the type of socialism they want.
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