” Angle was the wrong choice as many of us thought. Tark or Lowden would have won. “
I think so too. Angle ran a horrible campaign until the last 6 weeks. 6 weeks ain’t enough to recover though.
I'm a rock ribbed conservative who always supports conservatives in the primary, but Sharron Angle's candidacy is one of the reason I'm not a "tea party" conservative. I've been to a couple of tea party events and worked with the tea party on a lot of campaigns, and I've been on the same page as them when they backed conservatives like Joe Miller and Christine O'Donnell over RINO scum.
But alot of the people the "tea party" pushed for were damaged goods. Angle is a prime example of that. Fieldmarshaldj warned against nominating her and in hindsight he was absolutely right. We had three conservative Republicans running against Reid, and the tea party folks pushed for the weakest one, Sharron Angle.
Rand Paul did win in KY (which is a much more Republican state than Nevada), but that's another race where Fieldmarshaldj and I parted ways with the "tea party" folks in the primary. Rick Scott vs. Bill McCollum is another example. And I think alot of the tea party people were pushing for Todd Tiahrt too. I actually agreed on that one, but I was embarrassed to be on the same side as people hurling a "Jerry Moran is RINO scum" smear to try and get votes for Tiahrt. And many of the folks here in Illinois who acted like Adam Andrejewski walked on water were tea party folks.
I agree that we don't want career politicians to stick around in office for 30 years, but I don't support the opposite extreme of running total unknown outsiders for the top political office in a state, either. I also disagree with running a candidate over and over again after they've lost 3 times in a row. You can't keep trying the same thing over and over again and expect the result to be any different.
So yes, nominate conservatives in the primary, but nominate well-qualified, articulate conservatives without baggage.