[Roland]

I understand your intent here and have considered this in the past. My belief is that the social debate will not be won by either side, conservative or liberal. The arguments by social conservatives have the same vigor as arguments by social liberals, because both sides believe they are correct they will not compromise. You are correct to recognize that this is the wedge that maintains the two party status quo and prevents change. As long as it is intact gridlock will continue as we approach insolvency. If one side attempts to drop social issues from their platform it will tip the balance, this is already happening.
Personally I have put more emphasis on fiscal issues lately because 1) This is not debatable as social issues are and is capable of drawing support across the political spectrum and 2) I believe that a large part of social liberalism is dependent on funding that cannot exist if the fiscal side wins.
In summary I have little faith that things will change, and virtually none that the gop-e can be brought to the right enough for this to happen. I think we should reconsider cloward-piven: Insolvency is a mathematical certainty, what happens next is the tricky part of the theory.

[ansel12]

The only way to win the Hispanic vote and make it conservative, is social conservatism, Protestants have already demonstrated this with Hispanics.

Protestant Hispanics voted 44% GOP in 2000, 56% in 2004, and 48% GOP in 2008, Protestants (I suppose Evangelicals) reached them, penetrated to something inside of them that opened their eyes and enabled them to see the left as it is, and where good people belong.