Precisely. They can’t use the “if you don’t vote for the gop, you’ll get worse”. We already have worse now all the time while they were telling us “if you don’t vote gop” and it’s about as bad as it gets already.
A liberal-leaning GOP office-holder today is worse than the most hardened Leftist Democrat - because merely by existing, the Republican gives an artificial "conservative sanction" to whatever the Leftists are doing. The GOP constantly neuters genuine conservative opposition when it reaches compromise agreements on bad bills to "head off worse ones." The baseline always moves Left.
Ultimately, it's better to have a Democrat in office than a fake Republican, because - as they are starting to learn in California - when things go bad there is no one else left to take the blame. They seem to be trying to pin their misfortunes on Rick Perry now - which even the inattentive consider laughable.