Thursday, March 13, 2014 Inquirer Daily News  Florida fratricide
The GOP civil war moves to the Sunshine State  Florida
fratricide    Way back on May 13, I predicted that Florida would
be the setting for "the next Republican civil war." Perhaps that
was an understatement. A more updated assessment has been
offered by David Frum, the conservative commentator and former
George W. Bush speechwriter. He writes on his blog that
"Republican fratricide" in Florida will result in a "spectacular
bloodbath."  Just as in the recent New York congressional race -
where conservative-versus-moderate fratricide screwed things up
so badly that a Democrat wound up winning a House seat that
hadn't gone Democratic since around 1870 - the escalating
Florida feud between conservative purists and moderate
pragmatists in the GOP Senate race threatens to imperil the
party unity that Republicans will need in order to recoup at the
ballot box in 2010.  Just as in the New York race, where
national movement conservatives fatally undercu