Thousands of right-wing activists across this country rang in the Independence Day holiday with yet another round of tea-party protests against President Obama, inadvertently highlighting an interesting divide in the Republican Party. On the one hand are the hard-line activists who attend these things, versus the more mainstream politicians who want to win elections and are looking for their votes — and are running into all manner of conflicts as a result, or finding themselves taking on some rather interesting policy stances along the way.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=141015