Tom Cole, the head of the NRCC, the National Republican Congressional Committee, has been losing race after race he shouldn't have been losing. This is just the third THIS YEAR -- in heavily Republican districts.
However nobody in the GOP has the guts to actually fire the guy, despite his obvious incompetence.
He hasn't been raising money, he hasn't been recruiting candidates, and he hasn't been spinning a positive message. Now admittedly, a lot of this goes above the pay grade of an Oklahoma Congressman, but the pied-piper mentality screws us over royally.
If he could be recalled, Bush would lose to Sherrod Brown right now.
I don’t think this a reflection of Rep. Cole at all. It’s just the cycle, as voters tire of inept, standpat “R”s and roll with the “D”s.