What is it about the GOP leadership and conservative candidates?

On the one hand we have the RNC, President Bush and Sen. Rick Santorum supporting Specter in the 2004 GOP primary over a real conservative, Pat Toomey. Specter won by 2%. Specter repaid their support by switching parties (officially anyway, he always voted like a democrat). Specter is more liberal than many democrat Senators.

Now we have Jim Bunning, a conservative in Kentucky who's candidacy will die of lack of support.....in the GOP primary, no less. So much for supporting incumbents. Or is it just liberal GOP incumbents that the RNC and party leaders support?

The media and other GOP members are citing the fact that Bunning is having a hard time raising money as a reason to not support him. Yet, by their lack of support, they are keeping people from donating to him in the first place.

One wonders sometimes, does the GOP really want to win? Or is it they've become so effeminate they don't like real men like Bunning?