While many have focused on the trouncing of the Tea Party in high profile Senate and House primaries (think Kentucky, Idaho, Georgia, and North Carolina), the reality is that GOP problems go beyond the candidates themselves. To be sure, it only helps Republicans to avoid a replay of 2010 and 2012, when they nominated terribly flawed candidates. However, just ensuring that the candidate can walk and chew gum (and not insult rape victims or talk about witchcraft) isn’t enough. Republicans may have solved the messenger problem, but they still have to solve the message problem. CONT.
Amy Walter, Cook Political Report