I'd keep Orton as a face, but book him a lot better than he is now. Let's say at SurvSer the elimination match is down to Orton and Benoit vs. all 4 of the heels (Snitsky eliminates Jericho and Maven to make him look good). The rest of the match looks like this, Benoit eliminates Snitsky, HHH eliminates Benoit, and then Orton eliminates Batista so it's down to Orton vs. HHH and Flair. Orton and HHH fight for a while, and Orton hits the RKO and goes for the cover. Everyone expects Flair to break up the pin, but he doesn't; so HHH is eliminated and pissed. Orton and Flair have a respect match at the end with Orton going over and redeeming himself with his loss this past week on RAW.
After Flair leaves Evolution, he joins Orton and claims that Orton is the "new HHH" or something. Cade takes Flair's place in Evolution, and imitates Flair's gimmick as the "new Nature Boy" like CyNick mentioned which sets up a good feud to help Cade get over. Throughout the weeks, Orton is booked as a strong babyface by consistently defeating all Evolution members and cleaning house anytime he steps in the ring.
Orton wins the Rumble by eliminating a lot of people so he looks strong, and goes over HHH at WM As for what to do with Orton after WM, I'd probably turn him heel unless he's mad over as a face.
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