Akin was not the choice of the tea party or Palin, so no one owns him (except endorser Michelle Bachmann and the GOPe who campaigned against him in the election), the establishment came out against him after he won the primary in a 3 way split, who knows how much these republican establishment campaigns against republican nominees cost us.
Jeff Flake wasn’t tea party, but was a Palin guy won.
Mourdock was a tea party/Palin guy who the establishment supported and Romney endorsed and made ads for.
Scott Brown was establishment through and through he had tea party people like me helping his campaign, but he was so harshly anti-conservative that he was kicked out of the Senate when he became a man without a base.
Summers establishment, lost.
Heather Wilson establishment, lost in a state with a Palin, Grizzly-mama Governor.
Denny Rehberg establishment guy lost.
George Allen establishment lost, again.
Josh Mandel establishment, lost.
John Raiese, establishment guy, lost.
Tommy Thompson establishment guy, lost.
Palin gave us our only bright spots, our only Senate seat pick-up with Deb Fischer, and Ted Cruz of Texas, the disaster of Mitt Romney gave us Obama, cost us the Senate, and seems to have put the GOP on the verge of splintering as he undermined their platform, and branded them in the worst way possible.
And yet, all people can harp on is Akin and Mourdock in this election and Angle and O'Donnell in the last. What ever fits the GOP establishment's agenda of misinformation. What is really sad is FReepers who willingly fall right in line. Makes one wonder just where their allegiances lie.