“And again Republican’s shoot themselves in the foot by running the one candidate that can, and probably will, lose what should have been a slam dunk race. At least the late night comediennes will get some mileage out of Sanford...”
But look on the bright side....Karl Rove will be his campaign manager in the 2016 race against Hillary...and there are plenty of folks on here that would vote for the putz
See my post #23. The 1986 US Senate race in California should have resulted in a Republican pickup. Incumbent Alan Cranston was vulnerable, and there were about 12 candidates vying for the nomination. Of these, 11 were conservative and one--Ed Zschau--was a leftie.
The conservatives campaigned hard against one another, but eventually one, Bruce Herschensohn, emerged as the frontrunner. Lesser candidates began to drop out and support Bruce, but Mike Antonovich continued to run negative ads against Bruce late in the campaign.
Zschau won by taking only a third of all the votes cast, and since there was no runoff, he got the nomination--and went on to lose the race.