If Romney loses, count this as the first shot fired in the GOP civil war.

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6. The first shot was Christie, last week

This is Graham taking Christie's side against the conservative extremists. Steve Schmidt was on it this morning as well, blaming the conservative extremists for costing the GOP the Senate. What you're witnessing is the emerging bloc of the GOP semi-moderates reasserting themselves in an organized fashion. Essentially, these are the people who pleaded with the rank and file to nominate Romney. The rank and file conservative extremists got their revenge by making Romney take seemingly endless and openly contradictory conservative positions in order to secure the nomination. The moderates are going to start hitting back, and hard, and the Tea Party is going to get crushed to pieces. When Graham signs up for the moderates in the civil war, the extremists are really out there with their dicks in the wind.