No. The original failing was the GOP leadership's. They could have leaned on the RINO's and kept them from watering down the message. As it was, they tried to "out populist" the Dem's with an aging RINO and got massively pw3nd for it.
Personally, (and I say this somewhat seriously) I have wonderd if Hussein Obama is the anti-Christ and therefore doubt that anyone could have beaten him last year.