“People were saying this same crap about Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell when many people saw that they were basically unelectable.”
Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell were very electable and would have won were they not sandbagged by the GOP Establishment. Conservatives win when they run as conservatives (and are not sandbagged by the GOP Establishment).
I am afraid the GOP Establishment aiming for a repeat with Rep. Akin.
Or they were just flawed candidates that didn’t belong in a general election in the first place.
Rand Paul and Marco Rubio were also opposed by the “GOP Establishment” and they won, convincingly. It speaks to their intelligence and ability to campaign. They also didn’t make foolish comments that left them inserting foot-into-mouth.