The next tea party targets

[spanone]

The 2010 primary season is over, but for a handful of Republican Senators, the worrying has only just begun as they contemplate the possibility of serious primary challenges from tea party-backed candidates in 2012.

Primary losses by Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in recent weeks sent a clear signal to the Republican establishment: no one is safe.

While noted moderate Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) is an obvious tea party target in the next election cycle, there are a handful of other GOP Senators who could well find themselves with a fight on the right too.

Here's a look at each of their situations:

* Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)

Nobody inflames the right wing of the GOP quite like Snowe, who voted for the President Obama's health care bill in the Senate Finance Committee (although she opposed it in the full floor vote) and is often the first -- and often only -- Republican that Democrats recruit to try to pass their legislative priorities.

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[EFerrari]

1. I was just wondering where breibart has been lately. n/t

[spanone]

2. i'm sure he's brewing up his next phony democratic 'scandal'

rust never sleeps

[EFerrari]

4. Since the scumbag attacks the black community, too,

I've decided to try to enlist The Black Commentator and The Root. So my write ups of this @sshole's dirty tricks will be submitted to them, too.

[Capitalocracy]

3. Building momentum ahead of time, working on future election cycles

that's what we need to do to create some serious primary challenges for some of these bluedogs

[guardian]

5. If true, do you think

Snowe and Collins will go the 'Arlin Spectre' route?