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Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that “people that were right there ready to go ended up deciding not to vote with us” in his campaign to unseat John Boehner (R-OH) as House Speaker on Tuesday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” “We had enough votes but people that were right there ready to go ended up deciding not to vote with us,” he stated. Although, he told Hannity that some representatives were “blown away” by the number of constituents lobbying their representatives to vote against Boehner and that some of Boehner’s allies “really scared they didn’t have the votes” and that some representatives...

In alphabetical order: Todd Aiken, Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Connie Mack, Richard Mourdock, Christine O'Donnell, Tommy Thompson, The last two election cycles, Republicans have shown an infinite capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the U.S. Senate. There are great opportunties in 2014 to knock off incumbent Democrats (Pryor, Hagan, Landrieu, Franken, Begich and perhaps several others). There are also several open seats (West Virginia, Iowa, Montana, South Dakota) that are great opportunties. The formula should be to nominate the most qualified and conservative candidate who can actually win. Until the GOP figures that out, we'll be...