Is the future of the Republican party more Sarah Palin or more Ron Paul?

This election looks to me to be a major fork in the road for the RNC. Do they stick with the plan, hope that this cycle was just a turn of bad luck, and use Palin as the model - or do they kick the neocons and social "conservatives" to the curb and bring the party back to more Reagan-esque libertarian conservative principles? There are some conservative talking heads who think Palin will be the savior of the party, that her connection with "Middle America" will lead the party to the promised land. Really? I think this country would be better off with a more grounded form of conservatism than the Bush-Rove model that has, in my opinion, brought them to this point of getting beat down by a pretty weak batch of Democrats. I'm a firm believer in balance - and the Bush-Rove neocon system has thrown balance out the window and turned disagreement into a fatal flaw. I may not be as sold on Obama as some, but the Bush-Rove stranglehold has to come to an end for the good of the party and the good of the country.