Who’s Gunning for Lindsey Graham?

His vote for Elena Kagan’s nomination is just the latest conservative heresy from South Carolina’s senior senator. Samuel Jacobs on the Tea Party’s preferred challenger: Love Gov. Mark Sanford.

Lindsey Graham is toast—or so say conservatives nationwide and at home in South Carolina. On Tuesday, Graham cast a vote in favor of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. His “aye” made him the first Republican lawmaker to back Kagan and marked the latest in a series of decisions that have made Graham the object of intense anger among Tea Party activists and others on the Republican Party’s right wing.