Yep still no answers.
You’re not looking for answers. You’re just looking to justify being treated like dirt by a political party.
The answer is if Bush or any other loser GOPe gets the nod (because our primary system is BS letting small non-conservative states go first) and you go ahead and vote the GOP never gets the message even in a loss that their candidate sucked. They blame it on turnout, money, whatever... If enough truly do sit out and the data can be correlated that they sat out because the candidate sucked then they will get the message.
It is bad for the country but the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again (like running a GOPe) and expecting a different outcome.