Agreed. The problem, of course, is that we don't know before hand that someone like Toomey could have done as well as Spector did in the general election.
I'm tired of our elections being decided out of fear and uncertainty. Wouldn't you like to vote FOR someone and not against another? How about this. We vote for the best guy and do everything we can to get him elected.
The "he's too conservative to win in the general" canard is what is getting so many RINOs elected. That's what they said about Ronald Reagan. If we'd listened to such things we would have never elected Ronald Reagan.