Your description of Perdue in Georgia sounds eerily familiar to North Carolinians. Tillis is the same, and is trailing Hagan because of it.
Same thing in North Carolina. The electorate has changed. Minority totals have grown. What if the majority of the electorate doesn’t want to hear a strong conservative message. Why demand that a candidate tailor his or her message to say what the voters don’t want.
What, btw, was the centerpiece of GOP campaigns recently in Vermont?