What about all the establishment RINOs that failed to win ? Carly Fiorina in CA, Linda McMahon in CT, Connie Mack IV in FL, Linda Lingle in HI, Steve Sauerberg in IL, Scott Brown in MA, Denny Rehberg in MT, Joe Kyrillos in NJ, Heather Wilson in NM, Rick Berg in ND, Tommy Thompson in WI and the countless other weak and desultory nominees put up by the RNC, Steve ?
RINOs McCain and Romney were also not good at winning.
As I’ve said before, *hitty candidates from BOTH wings are party are bad.
Re Brown, he did win once and there was no alternative in MA. No Republican would have won in 2012 with Obama having such a wide lead in the state, some people like to pretend he would have won if were more conservative, he wouldn’t have. Loser Romney losing by over 20 sealed his fate. Lingle had even less of a chance.
Wilson actually did better than I expected. I don’t fault her campaign as I would Mack’s and Rehberg’s and Berg’s and Thompson’s. Those 4 useless twits lost races we should have won. That alone would have put us at 49. Add Akin and Mourdock and that’s 51. Of course with Mourdock, there was no alternative in the primary and who would thought someone who had won statewide TWICE before would make idiotic rape comments AFTER Akin already did and destroyed his chances? UHGH!! That one hurts the most because you couldn’t see it coming. I didn’t see Akin coming either but Clintonfatigued warned that he was a rube used to running in his fairly safe House seat. He had 2 primary opponents, either of whom would be Senators now. Ditto with Sharron Angle, self-appointed Queen of the Tea Party.
The NRSC deserves blame for New Mexico for giving up on Wilson, canceling ads and such. The rat got 51% but there also a ninny Independent who took over 3.5% from Wilson (American Independent party, I shouldn’t say they took all their votes from Republicans, I’m sure there are some idiots who had no idea what the party stood for and just voted for the word “Independent”).
If not for bad candidates and vote splitting we could easily have around 60 Senators right now.
As for Steve LaTorurrette’s syndrome, I’m glad the icehole and his beard left Congress. The numbers on prominent lemons in Senate races are pretty evenly distributed between GOPErs and conservatives there Stevie boy. Why don’t you go take a swim in Lake Erie, eh buddy?
I can’t fault him for his strategy though. If were I the GOP-E I would be pointing to the Akins and Angles to boost my case.
A few fools make us look stupid by STILL defending them. We must strongly disavow them whist promoting intelligent and articulate conservatives like Ted Cruz who can wipe the floor with the RINOs and the rats.
We must likewise point to the establishment failures like Old Man Thompson and Mack the Lesser to show that the tea party has no monopoly on running horrible campaigns that hand elections to democrats on a silver platter, the GOPE has been doing it a lot longer.