Prebus is an embarrassment. He made himself look like an arse with his cocky attitude and reassurances that we were doing better. In fact he couldn’t even get more turnout which was a killer and he didn’t get enough pressure to keep guys like Akin or Mourdock (both over the edge guys) from running. We lost 2 Senate seats that should be conservative (note not over the top wacko) but conservative seats. Now we have McCaskill and Donnelley in a Senate with 55 Dems (and 2 Indys who will caucus with them) and 45 Republicans of which 12 are moderates like Kirk from IL and other one from Maine who are not line in the sand guys/gals.
You make very good points but the bottom line - he lost he needs to go.
Rainsay’s backstab was *the* evocative moment this election. As soon as he declared war on the conservatives, he was done. We stayed home and let Romney bury himself.
His predecessor, Lugar, would have continued to be the senior ranking Republican in the Senate, and with a Republican majority he'd been naming committee chairmen.
With Lugar out, Orin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah would have been the senior Republican senator in a Republican organized senate.
Outside interests came to Indiana with the money to finance Mourdock's primary race. Did they stick around to finance Mourdock's campaign in the general election, or were they just happy enough to put their boy Hatch in the catbird's seat?
Well, that was a big risk wasn't it ~ and the risk takers lost, but so did Mourdock, and the entire Republic will probably go down the drain simply because "they" wanted Hatch to be the senior senator with all the power that goes with that exalted position ~
Frankly I didn't support Lugar because he's clearly become a drooler ~ and the Senate is oversubscribed to that custom.