No, don't blame those folks who are justifiably angry over how our Republican majority Congress let us down over the past two years and chose to exercise their right (and it is their right) to not vote in this election. Blame the feckless Republican leaders in Congress, the Bush Administration, and the Republican National Committee for the loss. By ignoring their constituencies' demands for a strong Conservative legislative and judicial agenda following the 2004 election, and by failing to keep the Conservative base energized, they were the ones who engineered our defeat last night.
BTW, the tone of your post does not do FR credit since it sounds exactly like one of the tantrums routinely thrown over at DU. I would tone it down.
It most certainly is not. If Talent and Allen were horrible candidates that didn't act like conservatives, you might be right, but they are conservatives, and conservatives who say they give a d**n about conservative values, but didn't vote for them are a joke and let them get trounced. For your analogy to be accurate, it would have to be something like, this election is like chuch members not defending their Pastor when he's wrongly accused of things he didn't do. The whole d**n country just got Macaca'd and it's because a few coupld hundred thousand STUPID voters in three or four states screwed up and threw Republican candidates under the bus couldn't care less if the liberals screw a lot of things up the next two years. There's no guarantee that Bush will veto ANYTHING from the Democrat Congress. I hope people are prepared to live with this vote. Because it's repercussions will be long lived and it's hurt the conservative movement. Anyone who really cared about the national conservative movement and the welfare of the country and our military at war, more than their own ego would have thought of that ahead of time.