Exactly. When Democrats run against Lite Democrats (RINOs such as the above-mentioned), the Democrats always win. The "good ol' boys" are trying to turn the Republican Party away from conservativism and more towards a "moderate" (Democrat-lite) brand.
We'd be close to controlling the Senate today if it weren't for nutball Tea Party candidates like the witchy woman in Delaware and the abortion boys in Missouri and Indiana.
Those three candidacies gave away Senate seats that should have been in the bag.
Some House of Representatives districts are very conservative, but far right Senate candidates just can't win outside the South.
It'll be a moot point soon if the muslim can sign up millions of illegal mexicans.
That would put socialist democrats in the driver's seat everywhere.