Quite true... Things do not look promising.
The reason things are not promising is threefold.
1: By a two to one margin, voters still blame Bush, who has been out of office three years, for what is wrong with this country over Obama.
2: If a GOP candidate plays nice with Obama, he cannot win.
3: If a GOP candidate actually runs like he/she wants to win like Bachmann and Gingrich, and tells the truth about Obama, it will massively turn our brainwashed voters off who are so sure that Obama is a wonderful man.