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Your post is mostly good, but as far as the moronic missteps made by Akin and Mourdock, you have it wrong - - some conservatives agreed with the things those two guys said, but virtually everybody understands that they were morons for taking the liberal newsroom bait and blubbering ad-lib answers to set-up questions. If they were not savvy enough to turn those questions around, then they destroyed their own chances. Conservatives didn't do that.

By the way, here is the stock answer to every abortion question. It needs to be memorized by every Republican office-holder and candidate:

"At the present time, the right to abortion is held by the Supreme Court as the law of the land and that ruling can only be changed by the Supreme Court. There is certainly nothing a single senator or congressman - - or even the entire Congress, for that matter - - can do to overturn a ruling of the Supreme Court, even a ruling with which I and many millions of other Americans profoundly disagree. As a US (Senator/Congressman) I will continue to support pro-life legislation that tests that 1974 ruling.”

“I will support judicial nominees, including appointments to the Supreme Court, who respect the United States Constitution, not as a “guideline”, or a meaningless “living document”, but as the framework for the limited government intended by the nation’s founders; a serious legal document that guarantees the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

"My hope is that someday soon Roe v. Wade will be overturned - - by the Supreme Court - - and decisions about abortion can be returned to the people; that is, to the states and to the communities where those decisions belong.”

Actually I agree with what Mourdock said, but not with what Akin said.

But my point is that the candidate must be media savvy if he/she is going to win elections. Neither of those two were.

I could not agree more with your stock answer to every abortion question. Why is it so difficult to get that through to conservative candidates?