The problem is that we think the country can be put right by electing the right person.  Truth is, the culture elects the president, not the president forges the culture.  We are in the VERY difficult position of having to change the mind of the people so that next time they won't be so easily duped by fear-mongering and class warfare.  We should be smarter than to fall for Obama's divide and conquer strategy.  If he can tell us that the rich are uncool, implying that anyone who turns a profit is inherently immoral somehow... had a conversation with a recent college grad (VERY intelligent fellow) who insisted that a kickback to Solyndra is no more corrupt than granting licenses to an oil company to drill on federal land.  I tried for an hour to explain it to him, and he never did see the difference.  It is because in each case the company in question is making money from governmental decisions.  It doesn't seem to make any difference if it is money directly given through crony stimulus loans or profits made after bidding, paying for the proper permits, then doing work and selling the product.  No matter - it has to do with ANYONE getting ANY money for ANYTHING.  What has happened to our ability to make sense of things?

So there needs to be some serious work done re-introducing our present generation to Western civilization with all its accomplishments:  free-markets, limited government, and the Protestant work-ethic, as well as the literature, art, music, and architecture, and underneath of all, the supernatural worldview.  Fact is, the "Great Conversation" of academia is only possible when we all embrace a Christian view of the world.  Have a look at Andrew Klavan's support of this point in his article for City Journal:

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon1107ak.html

The White House will be forever lost to conservatives unless we can convince the majority of our population that there is more to life than cradle-to-grave, Brave New World comfort and entertainment. To do that, we are going to have to show them another way, and it will cost us some of our comfort and entertainment.