ABC News: Christie vs. Paul: Splintered Battle for Future of Republican Party
The Republican Party splinters in the face of 2016 presidential prospects as politicians like Senator Rand Paul and Governor Chris Christie butt heads.
ABC News
Rick Klein
August 1, 2013
The adage holds that Democrats fall in love, while Republicans fall in line.
These days, though, the GOP line looks more like a scrum – or, more accurately, competing lines forming at odd angles on a range of different issues.
From immigration and national security policies to how far to take the fight against Obamacare — which the Republicans are practically unanimous in hating — major players inside the Republican Party are deeply divided against one another in unusually public fashion.