Huffington lost when everyone else won by about 5-10 points. As for the Dannemeyer case it doesn't prove your point. Your point was that we lose general elections due to conservative nominees, Dannemeyer lost in a primary because he was outspend 50:1.
I'll bet you can't name the last time a social conservative won office in a statewide election. I sure can't.
Then you should probably refrain from tossing out broad analysis and commentary. Again, some people might think you're an idiot, and we wouldn't want that.
The last conservative candidate that did well was Tom McClintock in his race for Controller in 2002. Sure he didn't win, but he came the closest losing by barely 10,000 votes. Tom was easily the MOST conservative candidate on the slate, so how does that fit in with your "theory?"
Prior to that, conservative Secretary of State Bill Jones won in 1998. In 1994 Matt Fong (Treasurer), Bill Jones (SOS) and Dan Lungren (Attorney General). That year we also elected not just a Republican Majority in the Assembly, but a conservative republican Majority and a conservative Republican Speaker.