Yes. You can be the BEST conservative in the world, but if you’re an idiot, you’re not helping your cause in any form or fashion. Simply believing in conservative principles is NEVER enough, you need to be able to intelligently and eloquently defend those principles.
Coming out and saying “I love God, I love this country, I hate abortion, I hate taxes and I love the military” shouldn’t be enough to qualify a conservative for office.
You know, this really scares me. We only see a few Congressmen and women as the faces of the Republican party. If Akin is the type of man or woman they have to keep under wraps except for a few appearances every two years before the election, things are much worse than I thought they could ever be.