No it is not. And all the people on FR that said ‘politics over principle’ had better either ‘come to Jesus’ or just go away.
Many of us said you can’t serve two masters and were trashed for it. The result of Mitt laying both sides of the fence advanced liberalism by huge margins. The result of supposed conservatives fawning over him in the final weeks advanced liberalism by huge margins. It is one thing to vote for him over Obama as a last resort (though I disagree with the idea), but most of conservativedom went full moonbat painting him as something he never was. Just as the Greek column Obama was painted into something he never was.
If we cannot form a party and back people with conservative values, we deserve what we get. And if we do and lose anyway, then the country is well and truly done.
But unless we quit living in a Rovian fantasy that the GOP is the way truth and light and acting for ourselves, we ARE well and truly done. Personally as well as politically.
At the moment, I'd just settle for values and principles of some form. There is presently a vacuum where those things should be.