In Florida right now there is a primary with many similarities with the NY23 case - Charlie Crist is the annointed favorite of the GOP establishment in power, and Marco Rubio is the genuine fiscal conservative favored by those who value principle over party.
Here's the kind of guy Crist is-

Charlie Crist welcomed Barack Obama to Florida last February, hugged him, grinned when Obama called Crist “his favorite Republican,” and then explained why the Democrats’ stimulus was a good thing.

That was February.

Yesterday, Charlie Crist denied it ever happened. Despite the videotaped evidence, Charlie Crist says he never once supported the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the formal name of the stimulus.

The GOP said they'd learned their lesson from NY23, where even though the conservative candidate lost, he came up from 13 to 45 percent in popularity in just a few days, and the GOP candidate had to drop out of the race, her run in flames (and she retaliated and proved the conservatives right by backing the Democrat candidate). The GOP said they'd not interfere in a primary again.
But the Florida GOP establishment has now found themselves caught twice resorting to dirty tricks to undermind the Rubio campaign. Two anonymous internet attacks, really dirty ones where the attacker attempted to discredit Rubio or his backers by setting up bogus accounts pretending to be from the Rubio account - have been traced back to the offices of the Florida GOP.

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