All three of these people were better than the people they defeated......and all three were back stabbed by the rhino party leaders!!!
A lot of it had to do with how much media attention they were given and that was very much a result of how nasty the RINOs were willing to be and how much support they could get among the low info republicans.
Here in Michigan, Kerry Bentivolio would have never won the McCotter seat if the RINO/DEM/Media coalition had gotten traction. When McCotter dropped out the GOP hand a hand picked establishment candidate all ready to go and wanted the rest of the “no chance” candidates gone but Bentivolio refused and won the primary by a wide margin.
Among the attacks Bentivolio faced was an estranged brother in law claiming that Bentivolio was going to be arrested on fraud charges any minute. On election day the media was happily reporting that charges against him would be announced in connection with the McCotter case and it didn’t happen. He was accused of abusing students when he was a high school teacher with a string of former students who tearfully claimed he yelled in class sometimes.
In the end, none of it got much attention outside the state and Kerry Bentivolio won the seat. However the senate is where the real firewall is.
Akin backstabbed himself. He was done as soon as those words left his mouth.
O'Donnell was a hopeless candidate who never had a chance in that state.
It's an idiotic delusional fantasy that either would have won if it wasn't for Karl Rove or whatnot; they both lost by ENORMOUS margins; no amount of additional money provided by the party or verbal support would have made enough of a difference that they could have won.
Stupid or futile candidates lose because their stupid or futile, not because the party doesn't support them enough.
re: “For other examples, see Sharon Angle, Todd Akin, and Christine O’Donnell.
All three of these people were better than the people they defeated......and all three were back stabbed by the rhino party leaders!!!”
I can’t speak for Akin or O’Donnell, but you are exactly correct about Nevadan Sharon Angle. The Nevada RNC worked against her from the start. There were even long time Nevada Republican state reps who publicly came out against her in support of HARRY REID!!!
Instead of coming together to defeat public enemy #1 Reid, the Nevada RNC divided Republicans and conservatives, handing Reid another SIX YEARS to do his mayhem. Nevada used to be a consistently red state, but no more and I hand much of the blame on Nevada’s Republican establishment.