The GOP is now in the midst of the consequences of its gradual submersion into a made-up world of self-gratifying falsehoods and fantasies -- a world that seems to take its cues from movies like The Idiocracy or Red Dawn, and books like Limbaugh's "The Way Things Ought To Be," or basically anything from Beck's literary catalogue of paranoid Kingdom Come lunacy . Its base is now so estranged from itself that it fails to recognize that its hero, Ronald Reagan would be too liberal for their Party today. Today's GOP has -- for all practical purposes -- become alienated from all things practical, including apparently, its instinct for self-preservation. And a further consequence of that deep, strange immersion is that Reince Priebus' emergence from it dredges up a frame of mind that demands nothing short of the self-examination of his Party -- from a post-mortem point of view.
This seems way beyond proper due diligence. It's as if in Priebus' head, his Party has already entered the zone of shovel-readiness -- that it's already dead. Or, it could just be his way of admitting that his Party -- in essence -- is now just in time to be too late. That the predictions of the Party's demise made back in 2008 may have materialized in 2012 and now, in 2013 its drift toward death is inexorable; that the opportunity to say "better late than never" has passed. Priebus may well be simply expressing what 1920's-era bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson once proclaimed in Change My Luck Blues:
"Hey, hey mama that ride has come and gone.
I just can't see what in the world is you waitin' on."
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