Look Who's Warring Now: A Map of GOP Fights, Post-Shutdown Edition

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/look-whos-warring-now-map-gop-fighting-post-shutdown/70700/

3rd edition - the Caribbean Cruz Map

Cruz is like a Tea Party virus that finally penetrated the Washington establishment. In ten months, he gave Republicans a shutdown they didn't want, ruined their debt limit strategy, cratered their poll numbers, and raised more than $1 million for his own campaign. As has been extensively noted, many Republicans are not happy about this state of affairs. Neither are big business donors.

Meanwhile, the Tea Party types are not happy with how the establishment has responded to the Cruz situation. Erick Erickson, editor of the conservative blog RedState and influential among the defender caucus, said on Friday that he's donating money to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Erickson summed up the problem facing the GOP quite nicely: "I do not expect to have to win every one of the races, but then the brilliance of this effort is that the establishment must win them all and we don’t have to."

So here's the battlefield, the rebellious insurgents of the Tea Party (and their enablers) pushing across the dividing line with the institutional Republican establishment (and their enablers).