Unfortunately, we have seen too many failed Senate candidates the past two cycles. Even in 2010, we left 2-3 seats in Dem hands we should have won. Our side is having terrible failure in state-wide elections right now, at least for national seats. We are simply getting beat in media and grassroots when we account for the densely populated centers. We need some new talent to surface quickly in campaign strategists.
Republican primary voters throw away too many seats on bad candidates. Candidates that either have no chance to win, or are liable to self-destruct. Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Todd Akin, etc, were all rotten candidates that should never have been nominated. Heck this isn't just a statewide Senate thing either. Supposedly conservative values voters in South Carolina 1 just marched off to the polls and nominated that lying tool Mark Sanford for the upcoming special election. That can't be blamed on the "establishment" either, they weren't backing him. In fact, some people are now complaining that the RNC should have stepped in to the primary to help make sure he wasn't nominated by the voters. So the national party is damned if they do, damned if they don't.
We need to be nominating the most conservative candidate that CAN win. Deeply flawed joke candidates like O'Donnell should never, ever be nominated. Even if every Republican had dutifully lined up behind O'Donnell (which I might add, she didn't do when she ran an write-in campaign years earlier) she'd have had NO chance to win in Delaware.