[JohnBrowdie]

We also need to coach them better to make sure they perform under pressure. We need SKILLED versions of the people you mentioned. Ted Cruz springs to mind.

yeah, I mentioned as much somewhere upstream in this thread. it's unbelievable that those guys weren't ready for the abortion question. they need to get their act together before the "gotcha" interviews and debates begin.

they don't seem to understand that there is a grenade wrapped in virtually every question that the media asks.

I have a new year's prediction; ted cruz will disappoint the purist sect at FR, and become persona non grata for being insufficiently pure. take it to the bank. it will happen.

[Lazamataz]

I have a new year's prediction; ted cruz will disappoint the purist sect at FR, and become persona non grata for being insufficiently pure. take it to the bank. it will happen.

With some.

Not all.

Some will be 'concern trolls'.

[Lakeshark]

Todd Akin was NOT the TEA party candidate, Christine O'Donnell was immediately betrayed by the centrist GOP of Rove et al and like many other conservatives who win, the GOP has simply abandoned them over and over again. The Cucinelli loss can be clearly layed at the feet of the GOP, as can many other winnable contests they chose to not support because the primary winner wasn't to their liking.

There are tons of examples of how the GOP leadership and its "moderates" have been far worse in its losing record and has divided the party far worse than poor TEA candidates. Frankly, your criticism is simply misguided, short sighted, and wrong.