Via Rich:

Chris Cillizza

Republican strategists downplayed the importance of the race, insisting that Oberweis’s past runs for office had badly damaged him in the eyes of voters. Oberweis, who owns a chain of dairies throughout the state, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2002 and 2004, and governor in 2006. His previous primary campaigns were knock down, drag out affairs as was his primary win over state Sen. Chris Lauzen (R) earlier this year — races that left his image among voters seriously tarnished.

The great thing–Oberweis won’t step aside. He’ll push through any criticism and even if RNCC bails on him for the general, he’ll keep up his vanity candidacy.