You recognize the importance of culture in this battle, but it seems to me you're still giving priority to the economics. 

Look at the etymology of that word "economic" and you'll see it stems from the Greek "oikos" or "household".  The family existed before both church and state. Culture leads and provides the foundation for the economic realm (i.e. commercial marketplace) to flourish, not the reverse. Your analysis is not bad or wrong, but still seems to approach our situation in an intellectual manner, while neglecting its spiritual and psychological aspects. Bill Bennett, known to the Left as one of our "generals in the culture war", once said that "at the center of the culture is the cult."

To get at the real energy behind Marxism (the force that makes it so persistent and compelling), buy this book (authored by a hero of the resistance against communism) and read it.  Out loud.  To young teenagers.

Your presupposition that Obama has a coherent self-understanding is fatally flawed.  The evidence strongly suggest he's a puppet whose strings are pulled by others (and has been that since his college days).  I find this theory of his "rise to high office" very compelling -- and more logical and persuasive than Dinesh D'Souza's theory (which is nonetheless quite intriguing).

Ahem, ladies and gentlemen. 

While much of the commentary here has provided chuckles (I can appreciate humor that "skates close" but does *not* cross lines ... )

I'd like to point out that both the *he* and the *she* here were 1) married, 2) with children, 3) in highly sensitive positions responsible for *our* national security, but 4) were West Pointers. 

Our honor code states: "A cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do."  I'll point out that this means we (as USMA cadets) are scrupulously trained (at taxpayer expense!) to be *intolerant* of such shenanigans. In other words, members of the Long Gray Line are expected (required!) to "police the ranks" by calling one another out on such violations.

And yes, adultery is all three: lying, cheating and stealing.

I'm a Lutheran Pastor often accused of being "too Catholic" (which I take as a compliment), and I'd already purchased and begun reading the book.  Happy to see others here also found it appealing--I look forward to a lively discussion.

No.  I'm not serious about saving this country.  It's beyond saving -- at least by us.  Our Lord can certainly do it, but humanly speaking, the "saving" of America is a utopian dream that is now demographically impossible.  I *am* serious about saving my children and their children -- and that's within my calling as a husband and father. What does it profit a man to expend his life for such a utopian dream and forfeit the souls of his children?

the prophet Jeremiah and his Lamentations, The Bible

Derek Williams, Romans and Barbarians: Four Views from the Empire's Edge

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

James Burnham, Suicide of the West: The Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

Carl F.H. Henry, Twighlight of a Great Civilization: The Drift Toward Neo-Paganism

Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: Christian Faith and Its Confrontation with American Society

John W. Whitehead, The End of Man

Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

The Republican Party *has* decided what it wants to be.  That decision is ongoing and continuous; it's *not* unitary, but a process (and result) of discussion, debate, horse-trading, and compromise--also known as "politics". 

You've done a fine job identifying several of the pieces in the mosaic.  Any of those groups who voluntarily withdraw to go third party will yield that decision to the ones who remain.  Some of those groups you've listed may have the desire to eject some of the others, but none yet have the ability.  We can handicap one another; we can refuse to work together, but victory will come only as we all grab hold of the same rope and pull in the same direction. 

So, no, divorce isn't the answer.  We *do* now and we *will* continue to have this entity called the Republican Party.  I do not yet see another entity on the horizon that's worth more. 

If one arises, I think it will come about in a narrowly divided state legislature, when a conservative independent uses his/her caucusing leverage to extract concessions by working together with, but not joining, the Republicans.