When I first saw the news of Karl Rove’s Conservative Victory Project and its effort to smack down the 2014 crop of Senate Tea Party candidates I thought it was a fun but not terribly consequential story — or rather a knock off version of a fight we’d see for real months or maybe even years in the future. But now I think this is for real, like this is the battle actually being joined. Read More

On the latest Rove-instigated GOP convulsions: “Since the origins of the modern conservative movement in the mid-1950s, purists and pragmatists have been battling for dominance in the GOP.”