[nascarnation]

We have to remember that in any election year when senate seats are up for grabs, typically only about 10 of them are going to be competitive.

The MSM can apply tremendous resources to attack candidates in these. What is depressing is when the Dems reveal their strategy (via journ-0-lists), Limbaugh talks about it for days on end, and these upstart challengers get suckered into making what is effectively a Democrat campaign commercial.

[Political Junkie Too]

That's what they said in 2012. There were enough competitive Senate seats, but the Republican consultant class failed to unify them around a national Romney ticket to defeat Obama and Harry Reid.

Romney did not extend coattails into the states. He did not make it a central theme in his stump speeches to tell Americans to rally around the Republicans on their local ballots. He and McConnell did not appear regularly together to support retaking the Senate.

In 2014, Democrats are defending even more vulnerable seats this time, and again we fail to see McConnell and company leading a national message on why it's important for Republicans to retake the Senate.

He's not laying down a series of planks to campaign on. He's not saying what he will fight to do to change the direction of the country. He's not explaining why it's important to send X, and Y, and Z to the Senate to help him.

Nothing will change until the weak and feckless Senate leadership is changed.

-PJ