[C. Edmund Wright]

I agree with everything you said about Lugar and the GOP establishment, but it was still unforgivable for Mourdock to make the mistake he did, especially with the lesson of Akin out there. That was just mystefying stupidity on a lesson still fresh in everyone’s mind.

[Lakeshark]

It wasn't so very smart, but neither was it the idiocy of Aiken. Aiken was a disaster, should have stepped aside, but got bad advice stoking his own foolish ego from the Huckster and others. He lost a GOP lock seat all by himself, with no one else to blame.

Mourdock simply got tarred by the same brush for saying something on the same topic (no, not wise, but not like Aiken).

He did not lose for that statement, nor would he have won had he been totally wise in his talking about pregnancy; it was Lugar that played the revenge card from the bottom of the deck.