National party gave up on an incumbent conservative and great guy in my district, Tim Walberg. If they helped, he would have survived. Walberg lost by 2% despite no help by NRCC, and despite a bitter sore loser from the 2006 primary endorsing the democrat.
We need to compete everywhere, and in special elections, every single district should be competitive. The New Orelans district is more democrat than this one, and went Republican. Rosty lost here in 94.
It's time for national and Illinois GOP to stop chickening out and to do the right thing. I took one for the team with McCain, now it's time for the liberal republicans to take one for the team in this candidate.
The GOP did the same thing with my former congressman. He ran against a RINO in the primary and defeated him, then the offered almost no help in the general election but won anyway.
After two years they called him a lost cause, stripped him of money and left him to lose by a whopping 2%. Now I have a shiny new democrat congressman who has already managed to rack up a record setting fine for campaign finance violations.
The GOP better get it together and fast.