“People don’t care as much about content as they do about context.”
That deserves repeating.
Despite how lousy McCain and Romney were, this is why we have had to endure 8 years of Obama.
And in the context of your remarks, let me point out that the reason people are not particularly concerned about George H.W. Bush’s comments on voting for Hillary - is that they understand his role in giving us the Clinton problem. His 1992 campaign has to go down in history as one of the worst ever, in a number of dimensions. But assume for a moment he tried and succeeded in getting a second term. Bill Clinton would be back in Arkansas, never to return to the national stage. Hillary would never have had the opportunity to be placed into national politics. Only if...