I, for one, do not want the Republican Party to dissolve, believe it or not.  It is far too amusing to watch, fumbling around issues.  More importantly, its probably one of the few things that unites the Democrats at this point — they’re almost as splintered.  But, at least in the Senate, it appears the thousands of cracks in the GOP are opening up into full blown schisms.  You know the silly dog that bites his own tail — imagine its an elephant.

It started yesterday when Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, who has already stepped on some GOP toes recently, went ahead and said this out loud and to another person, for reasons only known to himself (CNN reports):

Republican Sen. George Voinovich, who is not running for re-election next year, told a newspaper in his home state of Ohio yesterday that Southerners bore a good share of the blame for his party’s lagging popularity.

“We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns,” Voinovich told the Columbus Dispatch Monday. “It’s the Southerners….

“They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr,’” he said, according to the paper. “People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re Southerners. The party’s being taken over by Southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?’”

Well guess who was not too happy about this?  Did you guess Southern Republicans?  You’re so smart.  Once again, CNN reports.

Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana slammed fellow Republican George Voinovich Wednesday for saying the GOP’s problems stem from the fact that it is “being taken over by Southerners,” calling the Ohio senator “a moderate, really wishy-washy.”

“I’m on the side of conservatives getting back to core conservative values,” Vitter told the Washington Times. “There are a lot of us from the South who hold those values, which I think the party is supposed to be about. We strayed from them in the past few years, and that’s why we performed so badly in the national elections.

I suggest these guys settle this the old fashioned way… take it outside.