candidates versus incompetent ones and sometimes that capability is in the eye of the beholder. there were some candidates, republican side, who seem to be competent, george allen in virginia, tommy thompkins and they all lost as well as the richard murdoches anded to akins and sometimes this issue is more difficult. but we know it s goes deeper. for example, chris matthews repeated this comment and someone tweeted after the election, did the rape candidate lose? i think alec baldwin. the answer was which one? you had the gop candidates who all made these, you know, horrific comments regarding women and rape. and that has been a very big problem for republicans but one of the issues and one of the thing that is the karl rove group is trying to do is that the republican primary electorate and many of the states is very conservative and so it s very easy for some of these folks whether a todd akin