Likewise JD Hayworth, a strong conservative, campaigning as a conservative espousing conservative positions, in a conservative-leaning state (supposedly), anti-illegal immigration in a state threatened to be overwhelmed by illegal immigrants, and he gets beaten? Come on.
Allen's mistakes went far beyond an epithet.
And yes, some conservatives went down last night, but so did liberal republicans like Chafee, Leach, etc.
What happened was that there was a general discontent with the Republican congress (which hasn't really been all that conservative), and it manifested itself in districts where the demographics made it possible to happen.
For the last time, Allen didn't "use a racial epithet" and wasn't "stupid" for doing so. He used a nonsense word and was railroaded for it.
Do you realize that the attacks on Allen were all against his mother?
If "macaca" were a racial epithet, someone somewhere would have named the country where this is true. He used a nonsense word for a pest and got hammered. His big mistake was apologizing over and over when he should have laughed it off.
George Allen did NOT run a bad campaign. He used one word that was jumped on by the MSM as being racist and then he was continually pounded into the ground by that same media on a daily basis. Other than that, you tell me how he ran a bad campaign. Give me some specifics. He was beaten by the media and by a faux conservative Dem candidate running against him, while Allen was excoriated for supporting Bush on the Iraq war.
Hayworth was defeated in AZ because again the MSM and Dem pro-immigration groups pounded him continually, ran another faux Dem candidate against him, and his district is changing due to the influx of liberal Californians moving to Arizona to get away from the mess they created by their leftist philosophy there, and exporting it to AZ so they can louse up that state too.