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Funny how you don’t mention Connie Mack, Pete Hoekstra, George Allen, Heather Wilson, Tommy Thompson, Eric Berg, and Denny Rehberg, all Establishent LOSERS!

But oh, conservatives are to blame! (not, apparently, the hand-picked pantywaist moderate at the top of the ticket, and his equally pantywaist running-mate, Speaker Ryan)

I focused on the worst two candidates of 2012 Senate elections who lost seats they should have won. They did not lose in relatively reliable conservative leaning states because they were conservative. They lost because they were toxic candidates. They were toxic candidates because, like Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock introduced rape into the abortion conversation and down, down, down he went when he said "And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."

Todd Akin, was leading in Missouri until he said,

"Well you know, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, well how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."

But for making stupid comments on the campaign trail, we could have had two solid conservatives in the Senate. Conservative candidates need to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves when they campaign. If they cannot contain themselves, they should not run for office.