UNCIVIL WAR: CONSERVATIVES TO CHALLENGE A DOZEN GOP CANDIDATES -- BY CHARLES MAHTESIAN & ALEX ISENSTADT, Politico

In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.

Conservatives and tea party activists had already set their sights on some of the GOP’s top Senate recruits — a list that includes Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, former Rep.

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