Agreed.  Once the republicans realize they should leave behind the religious and focus on limited government, personal responsibility and accountability, and freedom, the country will flip and America will be great again.

Balanced budget
less regulations
strict interpretation of the constitution
Tackling the debt

The mantra is that government creates nothing.  It only takes from the creators and spends.  The government can't get it right... war on drugs, failed, war on poverty, failed, social security,  failed, military budget, failed, education system failed, business regulations, failure, transparency, failure, medicare, failed, medicaid, failed, entitlements, failed again.  etc. etc. etc. 
The power and the spending needs to be moved to the most local level as possible.  We need a culture that doesn't look to the government to fix all problems.