I do think your analogy is right on the money. The problem with it is that the “training school” in this case is Metro DC and all of these jerks have been there way too long and have completed their career training.

Exactly.

vet everybody they dig up

We already have a procedure for this in most states—the primaries and caucuses. If you don’t like Sessions’ candidates—fine. Replace them with ones of your own.

I’d love for a lot of heads to roll at the NRCC. My concerns are: 1.) the corruption in the national party apparatus that made the Scozzafava debacle possible runs so deep that I don’t know with whom the people responsible could be replaced; 2.) with that in mind, I think we’re already too deep into the election cycle to start the heads rolling now; and 3.) Sessions’ NRCC has gotten excellent results in the crucial area of candidate recruiting, putting us in the game for the first time in quite a while; and we need to take full advantage of that. Unlike the last two cycles, we’re in the game, with the Sessions NRCC seeing to it we actually have strong candidates to capitalize on the building anti-Democrat environment.

There’s still more of that recruiting to do, and if we win big in tomorrow’s elections (and I think we have great odds of sweeping all three big ones) it will probably spur even greater interest among potential candidates. So I say, let the people at the NRCC who have demonstrated success at finding good candidates keep doing it, vet everybody they dig up and be certain no more Scozzafavas are allowed to get through; send the organization no money and let those particular chips fall where they may as a consequence of the mistrust the NRCC has earned, and fumigate the place as soon as 2010 is under our belts.

What a bunch of corrupt, stupid, stubborn, visionless, conniving bunch of political bureaucrats getting fat while further destroying what is supposed to be the “opposition party”.

Q: What is Sessions & co being paid for?

A: To conspire to give a million dollars to a leftist professional politician who takes her marching orders from the White House and unions and defeat the successful private CPA with fiscally conservative values and no ACORN connections.

Great move GOP. Brilliant.

Conspiring together with Rahm & the White House & the unions (did I mention NEWT yet?) you attempted to destroy the only decent canidate in the race.

Can’t wait to see what Obama’s third or fourth term brings us with idiots like this steering the “opposition” ship.

Ship of fools filled with vain pols with no character, just a yen for money and influence.

Newt Gingrich is the prime example of why Americans and conservatives are so disgusted with the Republican party. Sessions, Dole, Graham…..all just fiddling away while Rome burns by the light of Hope n Change.

It’s getting to be tar n feathers time for the average American whose common sense values seem to be totally absent from the Republican party as a machine. The bright spots with R next to their name in Washington seem few & far between.

What a bunch of bumbling idiots we have to protect the public from the Dems madness.

These people sounded like a Republican, many sounded more like a Republican than the Republican did.

In New Jersey, Democrats don’t have to be afraid to be Democrats. I mean, I’ve lost count of the number of time Corzine has hosted Obama during his campaign. The kiss of death for any NJ republican statewide candidate is to be labeled “Conservative” – it will lose him the endorsement of the NJ GOP faster than an arrest record.

Instead of the orgy of self-flagellation going on right now, we should be figuring out how to oust all those Democrats who campaigned like Republicans in ’06 and ’08 and now vote in lockstep with the communists.

Anyone who lives in a Blue state, or any large urban district, knows that the typical Republican candidates either go through the motions of running against the D establishment and then go back in their hole ’til the next election cycle, or they are are simply D’s running as R’s. The status quo of this multi-headed beast must be addressed. More Scozzafazza’s must be rooted out and sent packing. But to accomplish this, there must be leadership with the will to do this.

Let’s start with taking away Michael Steel’s office and company credit card. If Newt wants to be a moderate, let’s tell him to go be a moderate Democrat.

Is it common practice for parties to shake up leadership just days before an election? I understand that what Scozzafava did is scandalous, but I do not believe it is criminal. Has a party shake up ever happened on the eve of an election? Ever?

I would wait until after the election results are in. At that point we can judge performance. Before we axe the leadership, I’d like to know who will replace them, who got it right.

Are you worried that if there is a GOP landslide that nobody will lose their jobs? I’m not.