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BRING IT ON: Rats Vs Roaches
POLITICAL MEMO
New Rove Effort Has G.O.P. Aflame
By JEFF ZELENY
Published: February 6, 2013
David N. Bossie, president of the conservative group Citizens United, wrote a piece on the Big Government Web site that declared, “The Civil War Has Begun.”
“This battle will be a long, hard slog against the establishment,” Mr. Bossie wrote, comparing the party’s conflict to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
The testiness became personal on Wednesday when Mr. Bossie and the leaders of two dozen conservative groups released a letter to American Crossroads calling for the dismissal of its spokesman, Jonathan Collegio, because he called the veteran conservative activist Brent Bozell “a hater” in a radio interview.
“You obviously mean to have a war with conservatives and the Tea Party,” the letter said. “Let it start here.”
LOTS More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/us/politics/new-rove-effort-has-gop-aflame.html?_r=0
