[DemforBush]

Well, I won’t go as far as Rove, but I do think we conservatives need to do a better job vetting our candidates. Akin, Angle, Christine O’Donnell - these were all first-class political train wrecks. I absolutely believe conservatives can win general elections, but we need to look long and hard at what they’re about and whether or not they are ready for the spotlight.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Sorry you’re all wrong about Christine O’Donnell.

She should have been a winner.

Rove did her in. It was that election which started me against Rove.

[Darren McCarty]

I agree. Those three were known trouble beforehand. However establishment candidates (including Akin) lost too. Pete Hoekstra, Tommy Thompson, the guy in North Dakota, Connie Mack, etc.

We need good candidates, period.

[nutmeg]

Well, I won’t go as far as Rove, but I do think we conservatives need to do a better job vetting our candidates. Akin, Angle, Christine O’Donnell - these were all first-class political train wrecks.

I agree.

[Kickass Conservative]

All we need to do is clone Ted Cruz, like the Empire cloned Storm Troopers.

[Mr. Lucky]

What you said.

[kevkrom]

Akin, Angle, Christine O’Donnell - these were all first-class political train wrecks

There was little wrong with Akin or (to a lesser degree) O'Donnell that wouldn't have been fixed by a good candidate training program for how to handle the media and the inevitable "gotcha" questions.

Angle was doing pretty well, actually, for a relative novice -- nothing she would have done would have been able to top the Reid/Casino/Mafia fraud.