To much fanfare and self congratulations, the Republican National Committee released its road map for reform last March.
It emphasized the path to success was moderating the party’s position on immigration, courting a more diverse set of officeholders, and building the GOP around successful governors instead than polarizing members of Congress.
It’s now three months later and all of those ideas seem to have already crumbled into dust.
Party leaders in Washington got upset with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for his self-interested scheduling of a Senate special election.
As the debate on immigration heats up in Congress, the majority of House Republicans cast a symbolic vote rejecting President Obama’s executive order to end deportations of young people brought to this country illegally as children.
In Massachusetts, the GOP nominated a Hispanic military veteran who is within striking distance of winning a Senate seat, but hardly any donors are giving money to his campaign.
As one strategist puts it, “This is the world’s longest psychotherapy session. Everyone’s trying to talk their way through what happened in 2012. The more they talk, the more they enjoy the therapy session.”
