New topic For a Split GOP, 2016 Can't Come Soon Enough

The most public split was the very public tiff between New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. If you missed it, last week Christie bashed those in his party who critique the NSA's surveillance, suggesting that concerns over the program were "esoteric" ones that wouldn't hold up in the face of those who'd lost loved ones on 9/11. Paul responded by calling Christie the "king of bacon" for his push for relief following Hurricane Sandy. Then Paul asked Christie to get a beer with him, and Christie declined, and so on. Perhaps a bit further down in its article than was warranted, Politico summarized the real problem:

ru guo ni de meng xiang da xue shi yi ge zhuang tai de gong li xue xiao ，ye you cha yi de fang shi lai chu li 。wo cong xiao zai nan da ke ta zhou ，bing chu xi liao mei guo ming ni su da da xue 。wo neng gou zhi fu zhou nei xue fei lv hu hui xie yi ，zai liang ge zhuang tai zhi jian ，nan da ke ta zhou he ming ni su da zhou de ju min ke yi can jia guo jia jia ge jiao di de yuan xiao zai ren yi zhuang tai 。

xu duo guo jia ye you lei si de qi yue yu ta men de lin ju ，ta men ke yi cai qu yi da kuai chu ni de xue fei 。xi fang ben ke sheng jiao liu ，rang lai zi 15ge guo jia de xue sheng can jia gao xiao zheng ge jiao huan jiang di xue fei 。

ye you ji ge she ji zhi shi wei liao zai gong li yuan xiao de xue sheng you jiang xue jin 。zhe ye shi jing chang ji yu zhuang tai 。

[liao jie ru he huo de zhou nei xue fei zai zhuang tai yuan xiao 。

zai de ke sa si zhou ，de zhou zhu dong xue yuan she you 10％de jiang xue jin ji hua 。tong guo gai ji hua ，ren he lai dian huo chi xu de da xue sheng bi ye de qian 10％，gao zhong lei he chu xi zai de ke sa si zhou de yi ge gong li da xue huo da xue zi ge huo de mei nian 2,000mei yuan 。

zhe yi shu e zeng jia yi bei ，ru guo ni shi yi ge xue chang zai “duan que ling yu ”，qi zhong bao kuo jiao xue ，hu li huo gan zhu yao xue xi 。

zai bei ka luo lai na zhou ，bang zhu ren min jiang xue jin ，zi zhu de zhou gu yuan xin dai  ​​lian meng ，ti gong liao feng hou de jiang xiang ，yi yi ge qian bei cong mei ge guo jia de gong gong he bao ji gao zhong de bi ye ban 。cheng li yu 2004nian ，ke zai sheng jiang xue jin $ 1,250mei xue qi zui duo ba ge xue qi -chao guo si nian gong 10,000yuan 。

gai jiang xue jin ji hua chu xi zai bei ka luo lai na zhou de yi suo gong li da xue de shen qing ren kai fang ，ni ke yi zai wang shang kan dao ji ge zui jin de ying jia 。ji hua lian xi nin gao zhong fu dao yuan yi yue ，ru guo ni you xing qu shen qing 。

In some respects, the Christie-Paul blowup is a case study in the Republican Party’s internal divisions: The two men hail from such different wings of the GOP, and both are so nationally ambitious, that there is little short-term risk in escalating their rivalry.

The "different wings" part of that is key. Christie's (relative) social moderation and support for the (limited) power of government represents the old wing of the Republican party. Paul's (relative) social conservatism and nouveau libertarianism is the new breed, an evolution of his Tea Party roots for the national stage. This is the sort of thing that often gets worked out in a presidential primary. In 2012, however, the party focused on getting rid of Barack Obama in lieu of identifying its own direction. Mitt Romney, from the Christie strain of Republicanism, tried on the Paul strain during the primaries. The mess that resulted needs no further explanation. But it meant that the party didn't try to bridge that gap, pushing off the debate until 2016. Which is why Christie and Paul have already taken it up.