The attacks lines used against tea party senate candidates proved pretty effective last go around. They go like this: If the candidate is a man he hates women and is a-okay with rape. If the candidate is a woman she is nuts.
Tea party doesn't field career politicians in general and they are not smooth at deflecting loaded questions. They ended up harming themselves by playing into this stuff by trying to split hairs and wax philosophically on things like if there was ever a silver lining to bad things like rape. I don't want career politicians or smooth talkers (I'm talking to you, Rubio) but at least some saavy is needed.
You are about to get angry posts from ideologues who believe that the sole qualification for a good GOP/conservative candidate is that he/she claim that they are the ‘most conservative” candidate in the primary, regardless of whatever nonsense they spout about rape or other issues.
They will defend those bad candidates beyond all logic, including the fact that the candidates lost in otherwise Red States because of those peculiar views.
All they want to do is shout ‘RINO” at anyone, candidate or not, who might argue that rape is not pre-ordained by the God of their particular religious vision or other peculiar and minority beliefs.