The Republican Party Establishment is trying to regain it's control of the GOP after a very contentious primary. They were able to get Mitt Romney as their front runner but it was through shrewd political wrangling and not through political popularism. The Tea Party will support whoever is the front runner because the primary process forced Mitt Romney closer to Conservative principles then he originally set out to represent. There is no question that he is not Conservative, his personal life is an example of what Conservatism espouses. He will get the support of the different elements of the Tea Party in the General Election on November 2012.
The Republican Party Establishment Senate and House members will have a much harder time of it come this same election cycle. They will try to avert what has happened to them in the last couple of elections.
Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind)
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)
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