The future of the Republican Party?

So, I have this problem.  There are two things I want to happen, and they are drastically different from eachother... and neither one will truly come to be.

1. The Republican Party learns from the 2012 election and determines that they should come to face facts about certain things.  
• Global climate change is real
• Women should be treated as full-fledged citizens and equal in every way to men.
• There is no evidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy... none, zero, zilch, and it's been tried again and again for the last century.
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make up a fake unemployment rate in October to help Obama look better, the economy really was improving.
• Evolution is real, as is science in general... and scientists may not know everything but they're not lying about the crazy sh@# they discuss.
• Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction and the intelligence agencies knew he didn't.
• Moderate regulations on the insurance and financial services industries are not communism, or even socialism, they're the government doing part of its job: protecting its citizens.
• ... and with all these things accepted, we can start discussing actual policies and not the BS... and perhaps make some progress with the discussions needed
2. The Republican Party ignores the lessons from 2012, follows the Tea Party even further off the cliff and end up losing their power to the point of no longer being a viable political party (similar to the Green Party and Libertarian Party).  If this happens, I see a couple options for what comes next:
• We pretty much have a one-party system, which would hopefully mean that essentially we have no political parties and people have to run on their stances on the issues.
• Another party springs up in the power vacuum but hopefully one that is more sane and we have the result found in the Republican Party learning from their mistakes.

I don't really see either of these hopes coming true though, so the inner conflict I feel wishing for each to happen is really a moot point.  The Republicans are already saying that there's no need to change their stances on the issues and that it's really only about messaging.  The cynic in me suggests that Romney's coming out and saying the truly idiotic rationalizing of his loss (that Obama bribed minorities, women, and young people to vote for him through things like health care reform and the DREAM Act... a discussion for a different post) was really a setup by the Republican Party where they said "we gave you a shot, now go say this so we can leak it and call you a crazy person so we're not tainted by you."  All this suggests that they're ignoring the lessons, and they are, but I see no reason to believe that they'll fail to continue pushing their agenda successfully.  This country voted for Obama 51%-48%.  That means roughly half the country is so far gone that they actually voted for Romney.... for Romney, not the Republican Party, for Romney, the guy who is so slimy that he can't give a press briefing without smirking at the end, even if he's talking about people who are dying overseas, the guy who changes positions on issues so fast you don't even realize it's happened (you remember the second debate where he argued for an hour that he would create more jobs than Obama and then interrupted the moderator to yell "Government doesn't create jobs, Government doesn't create jobs").  Yes, the nation is this far gone that they voted for Romney over Obama, because the Republicans have convinced them that Obama is a Socialist, Communist, Nazi who will take their guns and money away and replace their health care with government run health care... none of which is true (unless you happen to be in the top 5%, in which case only 1 of those items is true).  Republicans are amazing at messaging and convincing people that the truth is wrong and that their explanation is true... and for that reason, I don't see my second ideal coming to fruition either.