Republican Voters Need to Get a Clue

After a long string of losses that should have been victories in the last few years yet another election is likely to be handed to the Democrats, a special election of a heavily Republican seat in South Carolina. The Republican candidate is disgraced Former Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford.
He is running against Elizabeth Colbert Busch and nearly every poll has him behind is a seat that should have been an easy landslide win for any Republican with little need for money even being spent on a campaign.
Who is to blame for this? Is it the liberal media? No. The blame on this one rest completely in the hands of Republican primary voters who nominated him. He joins a long line of deeply flawed candidates who were just plain out of touch, like Sharon Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. Now Sanford's problem is ethical and not that he's on the fringe like these other candidates.
But it shows a tone deafness in Republican voters who only realize their mistake after they've thrown the election away.
Even if Sanford somehow squeaks out a small victory, possible, but according to the polls (which despite Republican cries of skewed polls were accurate last year) Sanford is headed for defeat, he will still face another tough race in 2014 and will be a distraction for Republicans in congress.
If Republicans want to win elections they need to choose better candidates. And, no, that is not a code word for nominating wishy washy moderates who won't rock the boat, conservatives like Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, and Ron Johnson have shown the right conservatives can win even in Purple and nominal Blue states. These people knew how to connect with voters and not alienate them. And that's what we need, and we need it badly.