At the end of the day, Toomey motivated Dems in SE Philly to overcome their enthusiasm gap and get out to vote for him. Corbett had the good fortune to be against a very weak Dem candidate in Onorato (I saw him at a train station, he looked like a guy who could be in the cubicle next to you at work, I had to go over to the other side of the platform to be sure it was actually him). We as conservatives have to be cognizant that if we push to have red-meat conservatives in purple states, that will be a motivating factor for Dem GOTV efforts, and we have to be prepared to react in kind to support conservatives.
Another lesson...I don't think many conservatives understand what it means to be a lib. Government is their profession, their paycheck and their life. If they don't win, they don't eat.
That's why the constant growth of government. This is a ready workforce of committed idealogues for winning elections.
Part of our charge as conservatives is that we, each of us, need to be involved in the ground game. It's the price we must pay for a government we can stand.
Enough with the armchair QBs...reminds me of the "Car Wash Blues" song..."They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius...the man said we got all that we can use." Everybody wants to be a General, no one wants to be a soldier...but any army needs more soldiers than Generals.
Amateurs talk about strategy...