I love it -- the Club for Growth and like-minded more-Reaganesque-than-thous might cost the GOP the Senate:

Unexpected retirements and divisive Republican primary races have turned the battle for control of the US Senate into a tossup...

Part of the GOP's troubles are within its own ranks. In Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Florida, cultural conservatives are challenging more moderate Republicans for the chance to be senator, and the battles are forcing Republicans to spend money early.

In Pennsylvania, Toomey has narrowed Specter's lead in the polls by attacking the four-term senator as too liberal.

"I think it's the most important race in the country for ideological reasons," said Stephen Moore, president of the conservative Club for Growth, which he said so far has raised $1 million in donations for Toomey and another $1 million for ads....

The intraparty wars are being waged as well in Florida -- where conservative Bill McCollum is challenging the more moderate Mel Martinez for the Republican nomination -- and in Oklahoma. There, [Democrat Brad] Carson, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is benefiting from a testy fight between Kirk Humphreys, a candidate favored by the Republican establishment, and Tom Coburn, the pick of his party's ultraconservatives.

"There is a battle between social-movement conservatives and country-club Republicans," said Brad Woodhouse, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, predicting that whoever wins will be weakened by the fight....

--Boston Globe

Now, if we could only throw in Roy Moore for President, this might be a fun election year.

(Globe link via Pandagon.)