“Then along comes Sanford.”
Yep, and he is indeed a turd in the punch bowl. Totally disgusting human being. So now the dumbass voters in his district have a “choice” between a turd and a Commie. Personally, in such a case, I’d hold my nose and vote for the turd, but would really, really hate myself when I woke up the next morning.
We keep voting for compromise/lesser of two evils candidates and we keep losing. It doesn’t work.