Guess what happened?
They all LOST!!!!!
The lesson? You don't win elections by driving away a third of your conservative base by brown-nosing people that will NEVER vote for you anyway!
Yup. And the opposition's ads were very instructive. Scott Brown? Richard Tisei? Charlie Baker? Those guys were scary, scary, radical rightwingers! I mean, they were so rightwing, it was crazy!! American didn't need that kind of extremism at a time like this!!!!
Which is why Deval Patrick, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Tierney won their races.
The Left does NOT recognize any attempt to compromise by the right. It's just a sign of weakness; a signal that the GOP has no principles for which it will fight.