“Not to mention the GOPs support for another last-minute switcher, the hideous Scozzafava.”
To be honest, that was not an RNC screwup but local nomination decision by NY state county chairs... conservatives split the vote and she got in a la McCain.
It was a nomination for a special election to Congress, not the county dogcather. If the RNC wasn’t on top of this and working with the local people to assist them in finding a winnable, conservative candidate, then they were not doing their job.
As for Crist, the Club for Growth predicted this immediately following Scozzafava’s last minute bailout: