What exactly will Republicans run on?

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Being serious:

- balancing the budget by some arbitrary figure, maybe 2020.
- although the GOP probably won't actually close the EPA, for electability's sake, they will probably order the rescinding of mercury regulations on coal plants and refuse to count CO2 as a pollutant. Coal is dead with or without the government, but the War On Coal is still a good talking point.
- privatisation of Social Security, and raising the retirement age
- some kind of genetic anti-welfare move like making increasingly arbitrary requirements for food stamps.
- cutting corperate tax to Canada levels, possibly lower.
- although some elements of Obamacare will be retained, the less popular parts like the mandate and the medical equipment tax will be expunged.
- more fellation of Bibi
- declaring the Iran treaty null and void.
- national right-to-work
- even more invested in deporting teh migrants

That's pretty much a moderate GOP platform that has a handful of sweeties for the base, some goodies for the donors, but refuses to go all the way to unsettle the dwindling swing population.

There would need to be some honey to swallow the stuff the general population doesn't really like, like jiggling with retirement funds. A war? A moon base? Another Mount Rushmore? God knows.

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Somehow I doubt the current weariness with conflict among the U.S. populace is anything more than remaining shell-shock from the hideously botched Wars of the Bush Admin. The public still distrusts Russia and China, and ISIS is a threat with the potential to be a breeding ground for terrorists. Although I don't think Americans can stomach the dead Of Iraq and Afghanistan, I can imagine the GOP placing ground troops with some public approval. Also, you need tp to appreciate that not everything the Republicans do is with the public's approval in mind. The neocons are quietened since the downfall of Cheney-Rumsfeld, but they still have a lingering influence in the party's upper echelons.

The other thing I barely mentioned was treats for the religious right. Although I think the rhetoric around abortion will still be going on, I doubt it will have much impact on federal law. Partly because I'm unsure about how any bills will work (probably a revival of the Partial Birth Ban or whatever it was called) , but also because I think the GOP doesn't want to lose this wedge issue. It's a great mobiliser and it keeps a lot of important groups in line.

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Things are bad, too many people are out of work, we need more jobs, etc.  Are we really going to give Democrats four more years to implement their policies?

That plan will work just as it well as it did for Romney. You actually need a message, or a positive plan, or something.