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Politico:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44676.html

Long-simmering tensions within the Republican Party spilled into public view Wednesday as the pragmatic and conservative wings of the GOP blamed each other in blunt terms for the party’s failure to capture the Senate.

With tea party-backed candidates going down in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada, depriving Republicans of what would have been a 50-50 Senate, a bloc of prominent senators and operatives said party purists like Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) had foolishly pushed nominees too conservative to win in politically competitive states.

The back-and-forth following an otherwise triumphant election amounted to a significant ratcheting up of the internecine battle that has been taking place within the GOP for the past year.

“Candidates matter,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). “It was a good night for Republicans but it could have been a better one. We left some on the table.”

Referring to the debate within the right about whether the party was better off losing the Delaware seat than winning with a moderate Republican like Rep. Mike Castle, who lost the GOP primary to Christine O’Donnell, Graham was even more blunt.

“If you think what happened in Delaware is ‘a win’ for the Republican Party then we don’t have a snowball’s chance to win the White House,” he said. “If you think Delaware was a wake-up call for Republicans than we have shot at doing well for a long time.”

[AffipgyncDync]

People like Lindsey Graham and Charlie Christ are just in politics for themselves, they just want to wield power as a committee chairman. Hopefully he will lose in the 2012 Senate Primary, perhaps even DeMint will run against him.

[Z2sc8gEz]

Well, statistics are on their side. Tea Party-backed candidates lost over 60% of the races they took on.

[casinobonyanes]

People like Lindsey Graham and Charlie Christ are just in politics for themselves, they just want to wield power as a committee chairman. Hopefully he will lose in the 2012 Senate Primary, perhaps even DeMint will run against him.

I feel the same way about Christine O'Donnell. I look at her and see a woman who is looking to get out of her own personal messes she created by running away and trying to make a political name for herself. If she could actually defend any of the points she was supposedly running on (as opposed to, say, not knowing parts of the Consitution when saying she was there to defend the document), maybe I'd even just start to think she was looking out for others instead of herself.

[brorialsibers]

Too conservative? How about just not good candidates? O'Donnell and her mice with human brains and Angle with nonexistant towns having Sharia law? Come on.