Washington Post columnist Bill Kristol on the split in the GOP:

Now, obviously, there are times when divisions in parties can be damaging. But what's happening in the GOP right now looks to me more like healthy turmoil than destructive recklessness, more like vigorous competition than bitter fratricide. It could get out of hand. But for now, the ideas are more Reaganite than Buchananite, and the spirit more problem-solving populism than demonizing demagoguery.

Wait, what? A significant portion of the GOP has spent the past year yelling about the president's birth certificate and death panels and death books and the like ... and Bill Kristol says the “spirit” on the Right is “more problem-solving populism than demonizing demagoguery.”

I'd hate to see what this guy considers “demonizing demagoguery.”

Just this past weekend, the Republican candidate in a special congressional election dropped out of the race and endorsed her Democratic opponent rather than the Conservative Party nominee -- a nominee who had called her “the Bernie Madoff of New York politics.”

Yeah, nothing “demonizing” there. And that's how Republicans are treating each other lately.