"Class war" within GOP? Thanks for the laugh.

[RandySF]

Benjy Sarlin noted earlier that Perry's fusillade against Fed Chair Ben Bernanke puts Mitt Romney in a treacherous spot. He's close to high finance in general and has been conspicuously unwilling to join the general chorus of criticism of Bernanke from the right. But there's another dimension of this feud.

For all the hoopla he's engendered Perry is entering the campaign very late. And he needs to raise a ton of money. And the really big money doesn't tend to come from the Tea Party. It comes from Wall Street and big business. And quite apart from a general people not liking calling major members of government establishment traitors, I don't think the Wall Street crowd or established money in general digs that kind of red meat attack on the nation's chief banker. For a lot of reasons.

This is one of the basic cleavages in the modern Republican party, but one that's usually finessed but can sometimes break out in incredibly divisive ways.


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