re: I honestly try to be as intellectually unbiased as possible.

Even if I can't admit it to others, I know deep inside when I'm being biased. And in this case I truly am not. It's just bad. It's no so much that I expect more from DC, but the idea that the people who supposedly "represent" (whether formally or informaally) at least half of America could possibly think those two would be not only palatable to their own faithful but actually win swing voters (in Senate or next election), is unfathomable .

Maybe I'm just not seeing the entire field.