Not to mention the GOPs support for another last-minute switcher, the hideous Scozzafava. It’s one thing for scum-bags like Specter, Scozzafava and Crist to go to war with the rank and file conservatives who support them, but they don’t even have loyalty to the party hacks who supported them. It shows that the GOP leadership is either horribly naive in their assessment of the character of these candidates (in which case they’re incompetent) or that they are themselves at war with conservatives (in which case they are contemptuous). Steele and others of his ilk are not fit to do the job and need to be replaced.
Don't forget Lincoln Chafee and whats-his-name (the recent Democrat) in Kentucky. Our exaulted leaders in Washington don't have a very good batting average.
“Not to mention the GOPs support for another last-minute switcher, the hideous Scozzafava.”
To be honest, that was not an RNC screwup but local nomination decision by NY state county chairs... conservatives split the vote and she got in a la McCain.