The Republican Party seems to be in trouble

Here it is, the middle of March in an election year and there seems to be no clear cut winner in the Republican Party for nomination to President.  In fact, it seems to be even less clear after the last weeks worth of primaries, where Romney was expected to continue his sweeping victories, he failed to attain so many of the delegate votes, earning only a pittance of the potential numbers and not even reaching half of the required amount. 
You have Newt Gingrich saying he will not bow out for Romney and you even have Ron Paul, clearly a man with no chance of winning, still hanging around.  So with it being March and no available time for the potential nominees to actually start focusing on the national salesmanship that could result in a presidency, do the Republicans even stand a chance?  Oh, I know, they are already touting that President Obama is the cause for this or failed to do that, but the American People as a whole are not stupid.  In fact, we are more in tune now than we have ever been.  We have so much access to information that we basically have to weed out the bad information.  Unfortunately, this leads to some being misled, but for the most part people will vote based upon history before they will vote for promises.  And we already know it doesn't matter what you did as a congressperson, rather what you will do as President.  Bush showed us this, as his actions as governor didn't really translate to President. 
So, President Obama has a few things going for him that will continue to hamper the Republicans efforts.  Number one, no matter how you look at it, we are still in war.  Sure, Iraq is mostly over, we are trying to talk with the Taliban, but then a Soldier goes all independent and starts massacring innocents allegedly.  As I stated earlier in the post, the Republicans cannot focus on national campaigns yet because they are doing in-fighting still.  The people realize that the Tea Party and the republican involvement has hampered much of the political actions over the last year.  Like it or lump it, we all know that forcing us to carry insurance is actually a good thing, perhaps in a different fashion, but insurance regulation will work.  His overall popularity by the masses.  This president has remained popular amongst the voters throughout his term.  Remember, he was voted into office by the largest voting percentage in decades.  He did what Clinton and Bush tried to do, incite the young voters.
So in the end, it is up to the voters who will win, but if this Republican drama carries on much further, it is a forgone conclusion that the only way there will be a Republican in office in 2013 is if Obama just bows out.
Just an old Soldier Ranting.