Count Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH) among those who think the party swung too far to the right in 2012 to defeat President Obama. In a CNN interview, he bluntly called tea party complaints that they weren’t conservative enough “crap” and singled out Todd Akin and Richard Muordock in particular for scaring off swing voters.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=162764