Actually, each one of those you listed could/can win. there’s absolutely no reason why they can’t, other than being cut off at the knees by the GOP-E.
Todd Akin - if he had even the typical funding support that the GOP gives to its candidates at this level (i.e. I’m not talking about “special handouts” here), this race would be in the bag.
Joe Miller - could have easily won if Alaska had a “sore loser” law. Unfortunately, the GOP-E largely supported Murkowski behind the scenes when she ran as an independent after losing to Miller in the primary, splitting the vote. If she had not run, we’d be talking about Senator Miller (R-AK) today.
Doug Hoffman - This is the guy who almost took the election away from Dede Scozzafava, and would have, if the she’d have done the right thing and dropped out when she was down to 5% support, and when she finally did, ended up ACTIVELY supporting the Democrat, with the connivance of the GOP-E in that district. Hard to see how he was a reject loser who never could possibly win.
Sharron Angle - could have won as well, if she’d have had more party support.
Ken Buck - could have won, if he’d have had more party support.
J.D. Hayworth - Not really his fault he got redistricted. Also not his fault that he had to try to unseat McCain who, despite being hated by everybody, also brings home the pork to the seniors in his state.
Christine O’Donnell - about the only one on your list who really didn’t have a shot of winning, and that was as much because she was a conservative dunning in *Delaware* as it was due to her being loopy.
In each case, however, the fault for their losses lies largely with the GOP establishment who refused to support them because they were conservatives.
Hayworth had no chance to defeat McCain, GOP “establishment” or not. Nor did it have anything to do with him being re-districted.
If your explanations of the other races is as incorrect they can be ignored.
In 08 the GOP threw my conservative freshman congressman overboard after he voted against TARP both times. The NRCC stripped him of funds along with Michele Bachmann, Virgil Goode and a couple of others calling them “lost cause races”.
My congressman lot by a whopping 2 points in a consistent GOP district. Bachmann pulled out a win and Goode obviously lost. The Democrat I was stuck with for 2 years then proceeded to vote for Obamacare.
Fortunately we returned my former congressman to Washington against party wishes in 2010 and this year he won the primary with nearly 75% of the votes and the democrats are running a placeholder campaign that they don’t appear to expect to win.
Moderates are lying, manipulative, bottom feeding scum. They will hand a race to the democrats just so they can say they told you so and run someone even further left next time.
“In EACH case, however, the fault for their losses lies largely with the GOP establishment who refused to support them because they were conservatives.”
So where are you lying in this post or the last one disclaiming it?
And WHO is it that has a reading comprehension problem?