[ilgipper]

Wrong. Completely wrong. mourdock was elected statwide as treasurer and was a fine choice. He made a ridiculous mistake, and one that is inexplicable after the Akin comments in MO. Otherwise, he was fine.

You single out a few candidates in your comments, but leave out the slew of ‘RNC preferred’ candidates that fell on their face. You didn’t mention Tommy Thompson, Connie Mack, or George Allen who were all the ‘safe’ choice. All ran terrible, uninspiring, losing campaigns. You seem to cherry pick few upstart candidates among hundreds in the country.

You win some and you lose some, and your attacks afterwards are not helpful.

[Servant of the Cross]

IMHO, it is a combination of the messenger and the message. I hesitate to agree Mourdock was a 'fine choice' if he could make such a 'ridiculous' mistake. It was so avoidable. Even AFTER Akin! It is ludicrous that a consultant at an annual retreat has to tell GOP elected officials not to say 'rape'. Duh. Don't fall into the traps that the State Run media will set for you.

Here are my nominations for bad messengers:

Angle, O'Donnell, Miller, Buck, McMahon, Akin, Mourdock(?)

And in keeping with your point, here were some bad (i.e. not bold conservative) messages:

Thompson, Mack, Allen, Bills, Wilson, Berg, Smith, Raese

We need to send our national candidates (House and Senate) to Newt Camp.

[staytrue]

“You didn’t mention Tommy Thompson, Connie Mack, or George Allen”

All lost in states comfortably won by Obama and all were in states that the previous senator was a democrat.

Akin and Mourdock lost in states comfortably won by Romney.