Posted on 02/04/2013 9:08:30 PM PST by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, son of former Sen. Connie Mack and vocal 2012 presidential primary supporter of Mitt Romney, lost his own 2012 campaign for the U.S. Senate seat in Florida to Sen. Bill Nelson in a 13-point landslide...
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And he disappeared after the primary nowhere to be seen. Nice guy, horrible campaigner from what I was told.
Mark Levin had a great spiel on it posted at rightscoop.com. Rove has a terrible record, but cannot seem to keep his mouth shut. He publicly lambasts all varieties of republicans. If he’d stand down and let the people choose their own candidates, the republicans might be a viable party once again.
The Romneybots jumped on FR after the Romney disaster, to hammer home an anti-conservative take on the senate elections, the Romney wing of the party seems to have done much worse.
Does anyone have the list, I’m not going to wade through 11 pages to see the names.
Depressing.
Exactly, it’s not enough to be right on the issues...the GOP is sorely lacking in candidates with political savvy. They learned nothing from Reagan.
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, son of former Sen. Connie Mack and vocal 2012 presidential primary supporter of Mitt Romney, lost his own 2012 campaign for the U.S. Senate seat in Florida to Sen. Bill Nelson in a 13-point landslide.
Mack was heralded as the strongest Republican in Florida to win the U.S. Senate race against Nelson, with early polls showing him only 2-points behind the senator. The support of the embodiment of the Republican establishment in Florida - former Gov. Jeb Bush – did nearly nothing to help Mack in the end.
Rep. Connie Mack lost his 2012 Florida U.S. Senate race on the same ticket with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who lost the Sunshine State to President Barack Obama.
Florida was a pivotal state in the 2012 presidential primaries because Romney and the Washington D.C. Republican establishment unleashed a barrage of negative attacks against then-frontrunner, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Rep. Mack played a role in this for the Romney campaign by stalking Gingrich at all of his public events and challenging the former Speaker on personal issues in an effort to boost Romney’s prospects in the decisive Florida primary. Romney ended up winning the primary before losing the state – along with Mack – in the 2012 election.
Establishment favorite and self-financed candidate Linda McMahon lost two U.S. Senate races in a row – in 2010 and again in 2012 – in the state of Connecticut. McMahon managed to lose despite being considered a moderate Republican in a wealthy state that is historically known for embracing centrist members of the GOP.
McMahon is a former executive of the World Wrestling Federation and was able to outspend her primary opponents to gain the Republican nomination both times, including the 2012 primaries, despite losing the 2010 bid for the U.S. Senate.
Establishment Republican figures such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie campaigned for McMahon in 2012, yet failed to help her attract enough votes to win.
McMahon was blown out in a 12-point landslide by Democrat Chris Murphy, marking yet another failure for an establishment-endorsed moderate Republican senate candidate. McMahon lost her 2010 senate bid to current Sen. Richard Blumenthal by 11.8-points.
Former Sen. George Allen lost the Virginia U.S. Senate seat he once occupied by a photo-finish in the turbulent 2006 election to former Sen. Jim Webb. When Webb decided not to run for re-election, Allen figured he would have an easy time recapturing the lost senate seat.
Allen was a longtime ally of former President George W. Bush and a consummate Republican establishment politician. He was formerly governor of Virginia and hails from a famous family, with his father of the same name being the former coach of the Washington Redskins.
Despite the huge backing of establishment Republicans, Allen actually fared worse than his 2006 election defeat, losing to former Gov. Tim Kaine by five percentage points.
Former Sen. George Allen lost the Virginia U.S. Senate seat he once occupied by a photo-finish in the turbulent 2006 election to former Sen. Jim Webb. When Webb decided not to run for re-election, Allen figured he would have an easy time recapturing the lost senate seat.
Allen was a longtime ally of former President George W. Bush and a consummate Republican establishment politician. He was formerly governor of Virginia and hails from a famous family, with his father of the same name being the former coach of the Washington Redskins.
Despite the huge backing of establishment Republicans, Allen actually fared worse than his 2006 election defeat, losing to former Gov. Tim Kaine by five percentage points.
Former Rep. Heather Wilson loses U.S. Senate race in New Mexico
Former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson lost her 2012 U.S. Senate election in New Mexico for the open seat to replace former Sen. Jeff Bingaman.
Like Linda McMahon in Connecticut, Wilson’s 5.6-point defeat in the 2012 race marked the second time that she lost a bid for the U.S. Senate. In 2008, Wilson opted to not seek re-election for her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives so she could run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Sen. Pete Domenici. Wilson lost in the Republican primaries in that year.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson loses 2012 U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin
Former Health and Human Services Secretary and former Gov. Tommy Thompson lost his 2012 U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin by 5.6-points.
Thompson was a former cabinet secretary under former President George W. Bush and a longtime stalwart in establishment Republican politics. He also briefly ran for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
Former Gov. Linda Lingle loses her 2012 U.S. Senate race in Hawaii
Former Gov. Linda Lingle lost her 2012 U.S. Senate race in Hawaii by 25.2-points, despite considerable support from establishment Republican figures and being a former two-term governor of the state.
Undoubtedly, the unpopularity of fellow establishment Republican Mitt Romney at the top of the ticket weighed on Lingle’s race, as well as the fact that President Barack Obama calls Hawaii his childhood home.
Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra loses his 2012 U.S. Senate race in Michigan
Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra lost his 2012 U.S. Senate race in Michigan to incumbent Sen. Debbie Stabenow by 20.8 percentage points.
Hoekstra was a former longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a former chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and very well regarded in establishment Republican circles.
Rep. Rick Berg loses his 2012 U.S. Senate race in North Dakota
Former Rep. Rick Berg lost his 2012 U.S. Senate race in North Dakota by only a single percentage point in a state that Mitt Romney carried by nearly 20 percentage points.
Berg had been an elected Republican politician in the state of North Dakota since 1984 before winning a race for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. As a career politician and sitting U.S. congressman, Berg was the choice of the Republican establishment in Washington D.C.
Sen. Scott Brown defeated in his 2012 re-election for the U.S. Senate by Elizabeth Warren
Former Sen. Scott Brown was the closest Republican to Mitt Romney running in a U.S. Senate race in 2012. Both were moderate Republicans favored by the establishment of the party and believed to be capable of attracting votes from centrist independents.
Unfortunately for both Brown, Romney, and establishment Republicans, liberal Democrat Elizabeth Warren trounced Brown by 7.4-points in Massachusetts, despite a massive amount of spending and robocalls conducted by Karl Rove’s Crossroads SuperPAC.
Rep. Denny Rehberg loses his 2012 U.S. Senate race in Montana
Former Rep. Denny Rehberg lost his 2012 U.S. Senate race in Montana to one of the most vulnerable incumbent senators in the nation. Rehberg, a longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives and career politician in Montana, was defeated by Sen. Jon Tester by 3.9-points in the 2012 race.
Rehberg’s long tenure in Washington D.C. and relatively moderate record made him the top choice of establishment Republicans in the 2012 primary.
Despite Tester’s weaknesses and President Barack Obama losing the state by 13.7 percentage points in 2012, Rehberg was unable to pull out a victory for his establishment Republican allies
Wow, thanks for going to all that trouble, you put it into a useful form that we can access easily also, thanks.
exactly. and what’s more, the only real successes in 2012 were tea party successes and saves, like cruz, walker, bachmann, king, etc. and those saves were accomplished against huge headwinds including no support and outright attacks by the boat anchor romney and his GOP-elite, conservative bashing party cronies.
imo, the best, most telling, test of the election cycle was in wisconsin. if you want to see how the GOP-e performs vs how the tea party/conservatism performs, look at the delta between walker’s vote and romney’s. no poll, no samples, just the hard cold vote within a space of 5 months in the same electorate, with massive spending against us in the special. no way to hedge it. as close to apples vs. apples as you can get in two different elections. that’ll tell you all you need to know.
Inaccessable link to any list, here.
Thanks, mead, for the copy & paste. I appreciated it very much. I wasted five minutes trying @ the Examiner.
Walker and the re-call wore us all down here in WI, but there was NO way we would lose Walker and he won handily, then Thompson lost pitifully. He used to be great, then faded to the left, then went off the cliff. What a shame. I personally am embarresed to have this skank farther left than 99% of dems, Tammy Baldwin from my great state of WI. Thanks GOPe! Knuckleheads.
Now that I've had some time to just look at the list, it's even more infuriating. We should have won all or most of these seats.
Mark Levin's list went on for much longer. I'm sure I heard more than ten or eleven.
Akin won the primary in MO because Rove's machine pushed Brunner, simply to keep Sarah Steelman from winning, simply because she was endorsed by Sarah Palin.
Steelman would have won.
I understand Connie Mack did not just lose, he lost by a wide margin.
You’re both absolutely correct, but this article does one more very important thing. It puts the lie to the belief that TEA Party candidates and by default their positions are natural losers. Every campaign is local and good campaigners can win.
I suggest that any TEA Party candidate or anyone who is considering a candidacy take courses at the conservative Leadership Institute. They’re very inexpensive and very, very good. If you’re just wanting to improve your advocacy, attend a course or two.
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/
Come on... Linda Lingle and McMahon were not CONSERVATIVE and they were from BLUE STATES!!
Unpopular as the Republican Party is, those results are utterly inexplicable from a partisan political standpoint. It comes down to a collection of inadequate (but non-threatening to the GOPe) individuals, who despite their experience and name recognition couldn’t deliver any sort of coherent answer to Obama’s promises of “free stuff for all.”
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