[StolarStorm]

Based on moderate relatives that live in a swing state, it was because of all the crazy talk rhetoric coming from a few extremists (the rape comments, etc).

It was just enough to push those on the fence over to the other side. GOP has to own that in order to win the next round. Can't bury our heads in the sand. Extremists hurt us greatly in this election. Need to shut them up the next time around.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I don’t necessarily buy that argument. While Akin and Mourdock made foolish gaffes which cost them their elections, Romney easily carried Missouri and Indiana. A more instructive race to look at might be Scott Brown in Massachusetts. There you had the perfect RINO Republican moderate in a northeast state. Never made a single gaffe and was a capable state senator and non threatening US Senator. Moderate or liberal on all of the social issues. But that wasn’t good enough for the voters of MA who decided they were more comfotable with a radical doctrinaire left wing ideologue who never deviates from radical left ideological purity. Truly frightening that the voters selected this individual for the US Senate. Akin’s and Mourdock basically threw their seats away with their boneheaded comments, they could have easily been carried in on Romney’s coattails who carried both states by comfortable margins. Every Republican should know by now you never mention abortion and rape in the same sentence.

[Cyber Liberty]

Yup. We need somebody more liberal than Romney next time. That’s the ticket.

[Sam Gamgee]

Heh, at least those so called extremists have a vision. But go ahead and bury all your heads in the sand and pretend that running a milquetoast Republican will win a third try around.