<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span>Courtesy of KHQ at:</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/18367511/internal-gop-warfare-characterizes-2012-primary">http://www.khq.com/story/18367511/internal-gop-warfare-characterizes-2012-primary</a></div><div> <br><span>----------------------------------</span></div><div><span></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">Internal GOP warfare characterizes 2012 primary</span><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "><br></span></div><div><span>BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho Republicans stage their first closed primary Tuesday, but debate over voters being forced for the first time to publicly declare a partisan affiliation has been overshadowed by political theater emerging from within the state's dominant party.</span><br><span></span><br><span>There's internal GOP warfare, with House GOP leaders seeking to depose their own incumbents.</span><br><span></span><br><span>That's coupled with a flurry of late-campaign mailings, financed independently by libertarian-leaning political action committees and pro-business groups to give their favorites a leg up.</span><br><span></span><br><span>These developments mark the latest evolution of a 4-year-old intraparty fight, in which conservative, tea party-influenced activists are seeking to remake the Idaho GOP in their image.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Meanwhile, establishment Republicans fear abandoning the broader message that helped them win four-fifths of the state Legislature since the early 1990s will undermine their cause.</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Seeya round town, Moscow.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom "Idaho's most liberal Republican" Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"If not us, who?</span><br><span>If not now, when?"</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Unknown</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></body></html>