The bimbo in Nevada that lost to the extremely beatable Dingy Harry, for one. I think there were at least one or two Democrat Senators in the 2010 election cycle who had no business being reelected, except for the idiots we put up against them.
Ideology isn’t the problem. Lousy candidates are. I opposed Sharron Angle in NV from the get-go because she came off two consecutive losses and made outrageous allegations that her House race nomination was stolen by Dean Heller in ‘06 and demanded a “do-over.” There’s also the X-factor no one can foresee of a candidate saying something ill-advised that can sink them.
But running RINOs is precisely the wrong tack, as we’ve seen by the disastrous situation in the Senate today. Add to that, look at all the establishment candidates that ran in 2012, the “safe” ones, the “non-purists.” They didn’t knock off a SINGLE incumbent or put any retiring Dem seats in our column. Scott Brown himself couldn’t keep a seat against a renowned exposed liar and fraud (demonstrating once again that moving to the left never works for a Republican).
It’s why the arguments against running Tea Partiers rings hollow when the opposition within the party was a total bust.