[If you expect to lose, you will most likely do so...]
I was trying to explain my dislike for John Cornyn (one of my Senators) and THIS is the absolute basic example that I can display! He is PLANNING on loosing, but he wants to be able to take a “moral” victory of sorts by forcing them to spend money!
How about the conservatives offer a candidate with solutions to SOLVE the problems? If they have a good product with a good message, the Democrats will still have to spend their money explaining why they haven’t done these things already! (i.e., all these Congress critters saying they will save $500 million to $700 million by cutting waste in the Medicare/Medicaid system - conservatives should be hitting them about doing this NOW (regardless of the Health Care Reform), etc...).
I played football from Jr. High all the way into my Marine Corps days and the one thing I remember was from my Jr. High coach (Coach Slaughter): practice like you play, because you will play like you practice!
This time is a golden opportunity to run strong candidates presenting solutions. People are actually listening and looking for leadership and good ideas. Even moderate and independent voters are looking for solutions. The strategy should be running and expecting to win with strong candidates, even in moderate-liberal areas. An opportunity such as the present time does not come around too often. Looks like the NRSC wants to throw this away to the dems...again.