What was he supposed to do? California will have legalized abortion until the supernova. As jwalsh07 observed, abortion is a sacrament in California. A majority of registered GOP voters in the 48th are pro abortion. Inconvenient fetuses are inimical to their lifestyle. In the interests of full disclosure, I voted for Campbell knowing that he was a nebbish. And so it goes. Bad options lead to bad choices.
Politics can be a bummer. I had to write Lieberman a letter praising his work on the WOT the same guy I wrote to on almost a daily basis many years ago castigating him for his atrocious flip flop on abortion. What's a guy to do?
Well, enjoy your 'nebbish'.
Nothing will change until conservative voters make the important things nonnegotiable.
And nothing could be more important than the God-given, unalienable right to life.
After all, without life, liberty means nothing.