SO true. When someone is elected in the primary, he doesn't like he goes after them and ensures they lose. This happened with Christine O'Donnell. He went after her after she won the primary and basically said those that voted for her were nuts. He wasn't a gracious loser at all.
Maybe if he and the other Republican elites hadn't bashed her the way they did, she might have had a chance. We will never know. The same with Todd Akins. he said a stupid thing and apologized for it, but the Republican elites went after him tooth and nails. Dems don't eat their own, but Republicans do (if it is someone outside the Republican elitist circle).
With the GOP-E, they always expect Conservatives to back moderate or liberal Republican primary winners, but when the tables are turned, they walk away in a snit and ensure defeat. The same ting happened with Castle and O'Donnell. O'Donnell could have conceivably won if the GOP-E had backed her like it should have and Rove and company had not attacked her. Instead, they just sat back and refused to help her.
And remember Joe Miller in Alaska? In the middle of his campaign, when he was ahead, the GOP-E sent former Huckabee staffers up to bulk up his campaign. What did they do? They shoved his grassroots people aside, and advised him to publicly dump the Palins from his bandwagon. In the meantime, the GOP-E provided significant party resources, money, and staff to sour grapes Lisa Murkowski. The end result? Miller lost, and Murkoski got to rub Sarah Palin's nose in it.
Some people around here need to go back and look at the old election threads from 2010 and remember what was going on then.