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Always with the Christine O’Donnell or Todd Akin bashing. Were they perfect candidates? No, but they won their primaries, deserved to be supported by Republicans of all stripes (conservative OR moderate), and were clearly much better than the Democrats who won. That’s my beef with moderate Republicans!

Romney, for example, was the squishiest of squishy Republicans, but a whole lot of conservatives still showed up at the polls to vote for a man they shared very little with. Why? Because it was better to support the party’s nominee than turn the election over to an avowed Marxist.

Now why in the world can’t those squishy moderates return the favor when one of our guys or gals win? Fight like crazy for your RINOs, but if you lose, show us the same courtesy that you ask from us! Support the nominee. Even if you hate them, suck it up until AFTER the election.

“Now why in the world can’t those squishy moderates return the favor when one of our guys or gals win?”

Because the squishes HATE conservatives and agree with the liberals.
The squishes would rather see a liberal in office than a hated conservative.

Agree 100%.

I think O’Donnell was a very strong candidate, and never agreed one single bit with the bashing.

She should run again. Maybe move some place more conservative first though. :D

Would O’Donnell or Akin really have been worse than what was elected?

These two maybe weren't as intelligent or eloquent as a Ted Cruz, but I bet their voting records would have been almost identical to Cruz, and I would sure settle for that in most Senate races.

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That is not the point of the argument. Rove et al made the professional judgement they could not win the election. In Delaware that judgement was correct.

In Missouri, the water is so murky and support might have saved the day.

Would O’Donnell or Akin really have been worse than what was elected? Since the RINOs did everything in their power to destroy the O’Donnell and Akin campaigns after they were OUR nominees, I guess they thought so, and that says a bunch about the moderates.

Yeah, well what about the way the conservatives bashed Carly Fiorina and Tommy Thompson after they beat more conservative candidates and wound up going on to lose. Oh ... we didn't attack them? You are telling me that the SAME state would pick conservative Ron Johnson AND lesbian-socialist Tammy Baldwin over an extremely credentialed right of center moderate?

Now why in the world can’t those squishy moderates return the favor

Because squishy moderates have no philosophy beyond, "well, okay, but please not so blatantly.' Their guiding light is sharing power with the perceived natural Rulers who are the left. They are much more comfortable with the Left than with conservatives, socially and politically. They believe that conservatives are illegitimate party crashers who should be hustled back out the door before they cause the establishment left to suspect that the moderate Republicans are somehow linked with those conservative philistine oafs.