Apparently so. Here's one man's list:
The Mitt Romney-Joe Straus Party: business conservatives and
gray-suit types interested in economic success and winning elections.
The
Rick Perry-David Dewhurst Party: Gov. Rick Perry's coalition of
establishment religious and business conservatives, united primarily by
faith in Perry -- or fear of him.
The Ron Paul-Debra Medina Tea
Party: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's devout cost-cutters, with subsets following
everything from militias to marijuana.
The Rick Santorum-Sarah Palin Tea Party: The same grassroots religious GOP we've always had, using the name Tea Party.
The
Empower Texans-Michael Quinn Sullivan Party: Midland oil millionaire
Tim Dunn's self-funded effort to take over all the other parties, with
some success.
I make a consistent point in our discussion a about political parties that while we are a two party system, each party has competing factions within it. This seems to a rational guess about what factions exist within the Texas Republican Party at the moment.
