[Kozak]

Oh this will work out well for the GOP establishment.
Hello Whig Party....

[Sybeck1]

Just how many liberal and moderate gop senate candidates lost?

[gunsequalfreedom]

Talk about old news, decades old news...

[madmominct]

That does it...I’m registering as an Independent. Screw the GOP.

[freedomfiter2]

So, according to Politico, the Washington team is gearing up a new effort to protect incumbents and limit the ability of Republican voters to successfully challenge establishment candidates

It’s been done for a while now. That’s how we got Mutt as a candidate.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

The Republican voter base is in an abusive relationship with the GOPe. It’s time for the base to file for divorce. And a restraining order.

[cotton1706]

Snowe, Brown and Lugar were replaced by Cruz, Flake and Fischer.

They hate that!

[Diogenesis]

Rove and Romney and Boehner are NOT satisfied
with ruining TWO elections and placing the Tyrant
in office.

The GOP is the enemy of Conservatives.

[rhinohunter]

What more can the GOPe do?

They have already successfully shoved mcLame and then milt down our throats.

[Timber Rattler]

Of interest PING!

[DNME]

As seen from the halls of power, the problem is that Republican voters think it's OK to replace incumbent senators and congressman who don't represent the views of their constituents.

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Isn't that the whole purpose behind "government of the people, by the people and for the people" or am I missing something?

Besides, all they do with the majorities we hand them is to continue our march off the cliff, or else cave and surrender. Who needs the GOP elite when they can't win the game with the players we send in?

Screw 'em. We'll keep throwing out bums and losers, again and again and again, until we get results, dammit!

[COBOL2Java]

And of course, should an honest, conservative Republican candidate manage to win despite the efforts of the GOP-e, they'll try their best to corrupt them, to get them over to the dark side...

"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.”

[palmer]

We still pay attention to Rasmussen?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Yeah, what a bunch of antidisestablishmentarianism!

[Theodore R.]

The problem is that too many of our little Republican primary voters are themselves establishment or establishment-wannabees, the kind receptive to Jebbie for 2016 because “only he can win.”

[Huskrrrr]

I didn’t leave the GOP, they left me.

[Sybeck1]

On an another note, why do we allow Iowa and New Hampshire pick our candidate? They don’t vote for them in the general!!

[jpl]

Yep, patriotic American conservatives have been some of the most despised people in the country (and the world) for a while now. We’re the thorn in the side of the totalitarians that never completely goes away.

[AdaGray]

They truly are stupid. Without the base, they will never win control. But then, I think the GOP establishment prefers to be in the minority.

[Antoninus]

This infuriated establishment Republicans for two reasons. First, because they liked Lugar and the way he worked. Second, because the replacement candidate was flawed and allowed Democrats to win what should have been a safe Republican seat.

This is not completely true. Mark Kirk was flawed and still won because the GOP-e supported him to the hilt, as did rank and file conservatives, foolishly. Meanwhile Mourdock lost in Indiana not because he was flawed, but because the GOP-e bailed on him because he defeated one of their golden boys. Same thing happened to Christine O'Donnell in Delaware. Until conservatives learn NEVER to support liberal Republicans under any circumstances, nothing will change.