But as shameless as O'Reilly can be, the intensity of his GOP boosterism falls a distant second to the Republican rah-rah-ism displayed weeknights by Fox's resident aging frat-boy Sean Hannity, a serial prevaricator who carries all the allure of a stale corn dog in a swank Beverly Hill's bistro. His stenchy attitude with regard to anything rooted in liberal dogma prompts speculation that perhaps Sean was raised on a hippie commune located in a crap-filled cow pasture and has been feeling pretty shitty about it ever since. Hannity nourishes ignorance. His weeknight buffet of snide racism , epic distortions , and shameless hypocrisy serve as the conjuring elements for an otherwise well-adjusted binge-purger's post-meal activity symbolized by the coughed-up remnants of manufactured outrage he leaves behind each night. But that menu has to be altered to avoid setting off a surge in the purge rate of self-identified Republicans that would redden even the face of Gen. Petraeus .
In any case, the totality of what Priebus faces seems clear: it's a convergence of entities that form a symbiotic axis of eventual Republican Party ruin which consists of the GOP itself; the conservative media; and the vast network of unelected wing-nut movement-pimps who identify with the Republican Party. Priebus may have most to fear from the movement pimps; a network based on the net worth of those who've stacked millions in essentially ill-got gains that is comprised of the conservative movement's top-shelf gripe-meisters. Somehow, Priebus and Republicans will have to get a grip on Palin, Donald Trump , Glenn Beck , Limbaugh and a whole boatload of others who grift along the conservative chitlin' circuit sh*t-talking about Obama and liberals to rattle the rabble into emptying their wallets. Kind of gives new meaning to one of Palin's favorite catch-phrases: "Buck up or stay in the truck."
Indeed, as Palin demonstrated -- when she swiftly parlayed a few weeks as VP candidate into a lucrative cottage industry of books, reality shows, speeches, and Facebook postings; or, as Trump proved when he played the birther gonads as foils to gin up interest in the only thing that keeps his name in the news, his faltering Celebrity Apprentice show; or, as Karl Rove proved with Crossroads in 2012-- whether the GOP's lives or dies, looting the conservative cause will remain as close as one can get to running a full-blown political Ponzi scheme. All that's needed are a steady supply of starry-eyed "patriots" up for swallowing any grift that comes wrapped in Old Glory or through which somehow a twisted relationship to the Bible can be made. It's easy to imagine that after squaring away their loot, the looters then gather for a raucous bit of objectivist drooling over Ayn Rand, ritualistically love-bombing the faux-individualist like a crew of fake gangsters paying homage to Tony Montana.
Epilogue
Obviously, when the late reggae icon Bob Marley declared : "only a fool leans upon his own misunderstanding," he wasn't specifically talking about Reince Priebus; the Republican Party; or any of the recommendations found in its blueprint for political recovery. Marley's notion was simply another way of expressing the accepted definition of "crazy" as repeatedly using the same formula with the expectation of a different result. So if you apply that notion to the reality of the GOP's largely head-in-the-sand take on the soundness of its policies today, it infuses a bit of clairvoyance to the deceased Rasta legend's point.
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