No “we” didn’t. That was always a “choose Hitler or Stalin” false choice.
Those whose primary issues were national sovereignty and border security voted write in or conservative party, which made it so Mitt and McCain were unelectable. And because that made a provable lie out of the notion that we had to settle for an Arlen Specter clone for a candidate Trump waltzed in.
Nobody believed ¡YEB! or Foam Party Boy were electable, because they wouldn’t have been.
So you knowingly worked to elect Obama by throwing away your vote and make "McCain and Romney undetectable". You are as guilty of foolish ego driven political stupidity as any Never Trumper. You did then what they are doing now. That is just too politically stupid for words.