Yes, I care about the economy.
The problem is Lot cared about the economy too, and he chose Sodom and Gomorrah, the well-watered cities on the plain. Go read Genesis 13:10-15 if you want to learn how that choice ended in fire raining down from heaven. When we put the economy before morality, we lose both.
We all realize there are three wings of the Republican Party: social conservatives, national defense conservatives and economic conservatives. I don't have a problem with someone whose focus is on economics — I own a business too, and I understand the damage Obama is doing.
But if the Republican Party wants to support free enterprise while being free of moral convictions, it's going the route of a European-style conservative party. That's not the heritage of American Judeo-Christian conservatism, and it's certainly not the heritage of the modern Republican Party.
But Romney can turn to the right, and may be better on other issues besides the economy.