In some ways, it would have been better for the GOP if Santorum or Huckabee had been nominated this year. The Obama landslide would have been awesome and nobody this side of Alex Jones on the sanity scale could muddy the waters with fake fraud charges.
The moral, intellectual, and political bankruptcy of the recent right would be obvious to all, there would be some genuine soul-searching, and the process of re-building the party might finally begin. As it is, the nuts get four more years to work their mischief and rake in their profits before the process can even begin.