Politico: John McCain purging Tea Party allies from Arizona Republican Party

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As the longtime Republican senator lays the groundwork for a likely 2016 reelection bid, his political team is engaging in an aggressive and systematic campaign to reshape the state GOP apparatus by ridding it of conservative firebrands and replacing them with steadfast allies.

The ambitious effort — detailed to POLITICO by nearly a dozen McCain operatives, donors, and friends — has stretched from office buildings in Alexandria, Virginia, where strategists plotted and fundraisers collected cash for a super PAC, to Vietnamese-American communities across Arizona, where recruiters sought out supporters eager to help the incumbent defeat the tea party.

Team McCain’s goal? Unseat conservative activists who hold obscure, but influential, local party offices.

full article: McCain's big purge

Oddly, even The Oregonian has an original article about this McCain/Tea Party feud.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Well, he knows who his real enemies are.

I'll grant him that.

[tanyev]

2. Maybe this will get them angry enough to draft Sarah to run against him.

That would be awesomely hilarious.

[hifiguy]

3. The jokes, they would write themselves.

[3catwoman3]

9. Any good he may have ever done was forever vaporized...

...when he inflicted the ex-half-guv in this country.

[Blue Owl]

4. McGrumps Dumps Teabagging Lumps

n/t

[JI7]

5. I thought he was retiring

[jakeXT]

7. He'll only be 80 by then /nt

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Arizona is one messed up state.

McGrumpy is on his Legacy Tour,and if he can't win the Rethug nomination,watch how his bitterness plays out and it isn't going to be pretty. He is facing a very formidable group of TeaBillies in the Phoenix Metro area and they control most if not all of the Rethug County Party positions. Been hearing the 1% ers are really concerned about the lack of Real Estate Sales and Job Creation. ALEC has messed the state from top to bottom.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Fucker was virtually the King of the tea party, along with Queen Palin, now he wants to flush them

all down the toilet and thinks the stench will soon disappear?

Poor fellow has not been given much of a say in the media lately, has he?

He Who Chose Palin wants to be President must have forgotten that little detail.