No. But I am thoroughly shocked to hear about internecine struggles for control of a political party. That's never happened before.
Brilliant.
Let us review what occured during the RP campaign:
1. RP's campaign was geared towards running-just-to-make-a-point. They were incapable professionally of shifting to a different gear when they had more support than they banked upon.
2. RP's followers mismanaged some of the fundraising process. When they called on their people to hold off donations up until December 16th [the first Tea Party] they made it impossible for RP to raise money to campaign in NH. They also mismanaged other things, specifically many people refused the training RP offered to make people into more effective activists.
3. RP was attacked, mocked, and so forth, by a variety of conservative leaders, radio talk personalities, etc. To my knowledge, no prominent Republican/Conservative personality sided with him in the run-up to the primaries.
4. THe local GOP leadership, precinct committees and so forth, did their level best to derail the campaign.
To say 3 and 4 did not occur is disingenious.