I hear this 'foisted upon us' talk and wonder if those saying it remember it was a primary process, not a political appointment, that gave us John McCain as the Republican nominee.
There was a time to choose and that choice turned out to be McCain. Let's not pretend that some unseen political masterminds colluded to fix hundreds of precinct results to 'fix' an election. The sum of individual votes got us this candidate, not the Republican Party.
Alot of us didn't see our candidate prevail. OK, has happened before but fits are for kids. Toss your disappointments and accept the reality. The reality is that most Republicans voted McCain over any other individual candidate. As the saying goes, that was then, this is now. Few things are a bigger waste of time and energy then bawling about not getting your way. We are now at a place where the reality is that McCain, Hillary, or Obama WILL be the next President. Want to look back then look back at what you could have done to change an outcome you didn't want. If the answer is nothing then let nothing be what you regret. If you find something you could have done, or done differently, that you regret then resolve not to repeat the mistake and carry on from HERE.