It matters, and we ought to care. Would Mitt have been a better candidate than McPain? Hell, yeah: but so would I, and I drink, smoke cigars and swear in public. If the GOP is to survive, it needs an infusion of new blood, informed by principles rather than expediency and lacking ties to the larcenous gang in D.C. I love Sarah Palin, but we need a principled, tough and witheringly articulate candidate who is unafraid to tell them that they are full of bovine excrement, though not nearly as useful.
To hell with them. If the GOP is no better than the socialist/abortionist/homosexualist Democrats, to hell with the whole lot of them.