This is my criticism of trucons in a nutshell.
Rule or ruin.
Not strong enough to elect one of their own, but strong enough to defeat RINOs, giving rise to RAT majorities.
NY-23 was lesson #1. This year - a year when the people are ready to dismiss the Democrats - will be lessons #2-x.
Trucons cannot elect their own (Until they show me different). They CAn defeat McCain, Fiorina, Whitman, etc - but to what end?
I think it's pretty obvious that the RINOs are pretty damned worried or they wouldn't be spending millions trying to defeat the conservative candidates. The fact that so many of them came to bail out McCain is evidence of this. For myself, McCain is as bad as a democrat. I already held my nose once and voted for him and having seen his trashing of JD I won't do it again.